Formal‐sector employment and Africa's youth employment crisis: Irrelevance or policy priority?

Promoting Youth Employment

Youth Employment in Developing Countries

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Outlook Toward Equity and Employment An Employment - Centered Social Policy ◆

Robert Haveman is John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs. On leave for the academic year 1996-97 at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Professor Haveman was engaged in research on issues of human capital utilization and the determinants of children's attainments. Th...

The Effects of Youth Employment :

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...

The National Employment Policy Prepared by the Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment for Use as Working