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 …

afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …

and occupation determine the probability of youth to be out of the labour market in six Sub-Saharan Africa countries. We … Malawi and Uganda, while the major challenges with getting the youth onto the labour market are still in Liberia even after …