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How are Youth Faring in the Labor Market? Evidence from Around the World

Fares, Jean - 2016

This paper uses a new standardized micro database for a large set of developing countries to (1) describe the patterns of labor market outcomes for youth, and (2) explain the contributions of supply and demand factors to youth outcomes. The paper shows that youth face various difficulties in...

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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project

Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017

Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and good jobs are scarce. In 2013, the National Capital District Commission partnered with the World Bank to implement the Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers...

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The Effect of the Swedish Payroll Tax Cut for Youths on Firm Profitability

Malm, Arvid - 2017

Payroll taxes in Sweden were reduced substantially for people ages 26 years or younger on July 1, 2007. The objective of this tax cut was to lower youth unemployment. The question of how gains from payroll taxes are distributed between workers and owners of firms has been the focus of...

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The Impact of an Adolescent Girls Employment Program : The Epag Project in Liberia

Adoho, Franck - 2017

This paper presents findings from the impact evaluation of the Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women (EPAG) project in Liberia. The EPAG project was launched by the Liberian Ministry of Gender and Development in 2009 with the goal of increasing the employment and income of...

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Who is Deprived? Who Feels Deprived? Labor Deprivation, Youth and Gender in Morocco

Serajuddin, Umar - 2017

One of the recurrent explanations of the Arab spring is that governments were disconnected from their populations and that public policies were simply not in line with people's sentiments and expectations. This paper provides a methodology to better understand how objective conditions of...

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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

McKenzie, David J. - 2007

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … countries, with the probability of migration peaking in the late teens or early twenties. The paper examines in detail the age … participation in schooling and work in the destination country, the types of jobs they do, and the age of return migration. The …

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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania

Buehren, Niklas - 2017

This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well as socially. The program was found to be highly successful in Uganda in terms of economic, health, and social outcomes. In contrast, this evaluation finds that the program did...

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A Skills-Based Human Capital Framework to Understand the Phenomenon of Youth Economic Disengagement

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F. - 2018

This paper revisits traditional human capital models and proposes a new conceptual framework of human capital accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as...

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Can Solar Lanterns Improve Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Kudo, Yuya - 2017

This study conducted an experimental intervention in unelectrified areas of northern Bangladesh to investigate the effectiveness of solar products in improving children's educational achievement. It found that treated households substituted solar lanterns for kerosene-based lighting products,...

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Demand-Driven Youth Training Programs : Experimental Evidence from Mongolia

Alzua Soyolmaa Batbekh, Maria Laura - 2020

The effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational-training program for disadvantaged youth in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia is assessed through a randomized controlled trial. Mongolia, a transitional country whose economic structure shifted from a Communist, centrally planned economy...

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