The youth unemployment rate is exceptionally high in developing countries. Because the quality of education is arguably … one of the most important determinants of youth's labor force participation, governments worldwide have responded by … skills training and employment placement services for more than 40,000 Nepalese youth over a three-year period, including a …

The effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational-training program for disadvantaged youth in Ulaanbaatar, the capital …

Throughout the Middle East, unemployment rates of educated youth have been persistently high and female labor force … participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college … help increase employment in the short term, but are not a panacea for the problems of high urban female youth unemployment …

Youth in many low-income countries are entering the labor force in unprecedented numbers, yet many struggle to secure … rewarding livelihoods. This paper outlines the economic development challenges that constrain youth's transition into employment … time for a fundamental reassessment of approaches for addressing youth employment and the youth transition in low …

This study uses a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of the training and internship program piloted in … World Bank?s Kenya Youth Empowerment Project. The program provided three months of classroom-based technical training …

A randomized experiment is used to evaluate a large-scale, active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training …

This paper addresses the causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives … the dynamic effect between perceived bribery among officials and the youth unemployment rates, the paper finds that, after … unemployment rate among youth and educated job seekers which in turn contribute to sustain those unlawful practices by forcing the …