A greater percentage of Nigerian youths are either unemployed, unemployable or underemployed. This is in most cases because they lack requisite skills needed to effectively function in the jobs they desire which is in turn, based on the fact that they have received insufficient, wrong or no...

The objective of this study is to investigate whether youth in households receiving remittances in Macedonia have a higher probability of establishing their own business. In addition, we investigated whether the effect of remittances on youth labour supply is homogenous across the genders and...

I study the link between taxes and youth self-employment. I make use of a Swedish reform, implemented in 2007-09, which suddenly made the payroll tax and the self-employment tax vary by age. The results suggest that youth self-employment is insensitive to tax reductions, both in the short run...