in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …

the initial conditions. We analyse the static nature of vulnerable employment-especially youth unemployment and … for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. We find growing trends of vulnerable employment, particularly for youth cohorts … pushed to accept informal sector jobs that are insecure, unsafe, and lack non-wage benefits. Precarious employment is …

of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …

employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into … unique administrative tax micro-data sets, which allows us to explore the relationship between firm characteristics and youth …

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost … effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms claiming the subsidy with similar firms not claiming the subsidy … impact on youth employment on average. We see a positive and statistically significant effect on youth and non-youth …

The paper examines the incidence and employment impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive, a South African wage subsidy … system that is targeted at the employers of low-wage youth. The paper uses a triple differences strategy and survey and … influence on the employment rate of eligible workers. The number of jobs in the region where the subsidy is the greatest has …

markets. Investigating outcomes beyond employment and earnings, we do not find an impact on entrepreneurship or university …

. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …

This study simulates the macro-micro economic impacts of the employment policy, focusing on hysteresis in youth … African Social Accounting Matrix to estimate, compare, and determine the impact of employment policy on youth unemployment as … the unemployed youth. The research findings indicate that demand for youth labour increases in the long run, resulting in …

proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana …We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …, we find that males have a stronger preference for self-employment. This is mostly explained by differences in educational …