employment and unemployment outcomes is very sensitive to the age range of the sample. We argue that this is because the … size increases employment and reduces unemployment. …

Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to … compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are … similar at similar levels of development but young adults in Africa are less likely to have a salaried job, especially when …