Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges …, counseling, training, and placement services. Such programs can be expensive, however, which underscores the need to focus on … education policy and earlier interventions in the education system. …

new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … unemployment duration. We found that education reduces the duration of unemployment in general. However, the effect is higher for …-Saharan African countries (SSAs), particularly Ghana. The weakness in the link between education and the needed skill by the industry …