Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye ()
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Thierry Kangoye: African Development Bank

Chapter Chapter 9 in Disadvantaged Workers, 2014, pp 181-202 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this chapter provides first systematic evidence on youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Africa. The chapter first documents the labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, including discouragement. The multinomial logit regression analysis is then carried out to analyze the main socio-economic drivers of the youth labor market outcomes. Since the factors that could unlock the employment potential of the Swazi youth are also on the demand side of the labor market, the chapter examines the country’s barriers to private job creation and youth entrepreneurship. It concludes with experiences of other countries that could inform design of more effective interventions towards youth employment in Swaziland.

Keywords: Youth employment and entrepreneurship; Multivariate analysis; Policies; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Chapter: Youth Unemployment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland (2014)
Working Paper: Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland (2013)
Working Paper: YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN AFRICA: NEW EVIDENCE AND POLICIES FROM SWAZILAND (2013)
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04376-0_9

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