Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …

Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, especially given the region’s young … population. The barriers young people face stem both from skills deficiencies and from weak fundamentals that constrain job … not adequately reflect the reality that most young people work in agriculture, household enterprises, and self …

Slovakia who were registered in 2011. All of the programmes facilitate gaining work experience and share a comparable design …

, but at the same time, firms are expected to develop training programmes to improve the professional skills of youth. This … skills upon graduation. Such contracts incentivise employment creation, as firms benefit from lower wages and tax reductions …

the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This …This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast … study makes the survey available to the research community as a Scientific Use File by explaining the development, structure …