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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countriesGender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs...
Gender gap Youth EmploymentBlog
Young Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the UK: Does more education mean better futures?
Education is my freedom ... if I have my education, everything is still possible for me in the future. Mohammed grinned, and looked down at his newly acquired university student card...
Migration Refugees YouthWorking Paper
The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UKUnprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK...
Migration Refugees YouthBook Chapter
Kenya: Economic growth, labor market dynamics, and prospects for a demographic dividendFrom the book: Africa's Lions
Economic growth Labour Labour productivityBlog
African Lions - Tapping the potential of Kenya's economic growth
From 2000-2014, like many other sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya experienced high growth, at an average of 4.37 percent...
Economic growth Labour Labour productivityWorking Paper
The African Lions: Kenya country case studyThis paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with a focus on population growth, its structure, and the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend...
Economic growth Labour Labour productivityBook Chapter
Conclusions :: Moving Beyond Conventional WisdomsFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization...
Economic growth Population YouthBook Chapter
Youth in Tanzania’s Urbanizing Mining Settlements: Prospecting a Mineralized FutureFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Economic development Labour supply Natural resourcesBook Chapter
Cities of Youth: Post-Millennial Cases of Mobility and SocialityFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Income distribution Urban economics YouthBook Chapter
The Success of Learnerships :: Lessons from South Africa’s Training and Education ProgrammeFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Education Human capital UnemploymentBook Chapter
Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan AfricaFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Education Finance (Education) PopulationBook Chapter
Young People, Agriculture and Employment in Rural AfricaFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Agriculture Economic development EntrepreneurshipBook
African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization: Employment, politics, and prospects for changeThe much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy practitioners...
Discrimination in employment Economic development Rural developmentBook Chapter
Introduction: African Youth at a CrossroadsIntroduction Across the globe, today’s youth are often paradoxically considered both ‘agents of change’ who are driven by their aspirations for a better life and ‘a lost gen-eration’ who are trapped by their economic vul...
Economic growth Population YouthWorking Paper
Young People, Agriculture, and Employment in Rural AfricaThis paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people’s unemployment in Africa through agriculture...
Agriculture Economic development Entrepreneurship