adulthood. Youth development is difficult to quantify because of the multi-dimensionality of youth behavior. Most monitoring use … a methodology developed by Duke University to measure the well-being of U.S. children and youth. It uses readily …-being of youth in each state over time …

Of the 1.6 million Haitian youth aged 15-24, only 13 percent are content with their lives. More than half of 20-year …-olds have not completed secondary education and nearly half of youth in the labor market are unemployed. This paper investigates … protective and risk factors predisposing youth to positive and negative behaviors. These factors, including poverty, gender …

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 transitioning to work. This is reflected in their relatively higher … unemployment rate, higher incidence of low paying or unpaid work, and a large share of youth who are neither working nor in school …

in East Asia and Latin America, youth populations are at or near their peak, and will decline in coming decades. In other … countries, especially in Africa and South Asia, youth populations will continue growing for several decades. From an economic … perspective, absolute numbers may be less important than the growth rate or relative size of youth cohorts. Growth rates and the …

accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as a state (temporary or permanent) where individuals stop accumulating human …

driving the time use decisions and restrictions faced by Mexican youth. The results of the analysis imply that: (i) once youth …