Youth unemployment has increased in many industrialized countries following the recent global recession. However, this …-the-job, is often considered to be one of the most important policy solutions in combating youth unemployment. The evidence …

examines the skill-enhancing effects of several youth programs and demonstrations, with an emphasis on how well these efforts …

in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more recent stress on the importance of increasing the human capital … education, to favour smoother school-to-work transitions. Apprenticeships schemes, fiscal incentives to hire the youth …