programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into … employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … employment in South Africa with a significantly large sample size. …

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …

structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …

This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market … Series, it analyses flows between the formal sector, informal sector, and unemployment, paying specific attention to how … accounting for wage employment and self-employment as well as upper-tier and lower-tier informal sector segments. Transition …

Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated … in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

People with disabilities in Ghana and other developing economies are discriminated against in many fundamental elements … of human empowerment such as education and employment. While some employers are unwilling to hire, the educational … systems do not provide enabling environment for a good education. This paper explores employment and educational attainment …

-term labour market outcomes in Ghana. We use the education reform of 1987 as a natural experiment, which reduced the years of …