The main objective of the current study is to examine the extent to which gender, education, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016/17 collected by the Uganda National Bureau of Statistics, we obtained a sample ...
Youth unemployment rate, aged 15-24, women YearValueFootnotes 1991 1.2 1, 2, 3 Footnotes: Age: 15-24 Coverage: Total Type of survey: Population censusSource: United Nations Statistics DivisionTweetHome | About | Search | Site Map | Blog©...
One of the most pressing problems faced by young people in South Africa is unemployment. In August 1994 the then minister of Trade and Industry stated that 97% of those who had left school at the end of 1993 had been unable to find employment (Potgieter 1994). In addition, statistics ...
This study focused on challenging the grand challenges of unemployment among youth through identification of entrepreneurial skills in seed yam multiplication. Three research questions were answered while three hypotheses were tested for the study. Questionnaire survey research design was used for the study...
More needs to be learned about ways to work within this new normal of urban centers, a normal that includes low high-school graduation rates, high unemployment, and low levels of social trust. Show moreView chapterExplore book Strengthening Informal Supports to Promote Behavioral Health of Youth ...
Skills development gains greater significance in the face of rising unemployment. Over the last few years there has been an improvement in the number of skilled labour from 34% in 2014 to 47% in 2019 but a simultaneous decrease in those who are able to find a job upon completion from 50%...
UGANDALABOR marketUNEMPLOYMENTJOB offersVOCATIONAL educationJOB evaluationWe design a labor market experiment to compare demand‐ and supply‐side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low‐income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to co...
Alfonsi, Livia, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman, and Anna Vitaliy, "Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda," Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Working Paper. London: Centre for Economic...
Women are at a disadvantage in the labour market in India, with lower labour force participation and higher unemployment than men. The DDU-GKY program gave the young women in our sample a somewhat unique opportunity to migrate and be formally employed. It is hence important to assess whether ...
we apply logit regressions to determine the influence of 10 independent variables on the likelihood of starting a business. We distinguish between 18–24-year-olds and 25–64-year-olds as well as between founders and non-founders. Self-efficacy in entrepreneurial skills, fear of failure and gend...