Young people in Africa are confronted with many difficulties when it comes to their integration in thelabour markets and their research for decent and productive jobs. Research on the links betweenformal education and vocational training and their economic returns are especially crucial inunderstanding inadequacy between labour supply and demand for young people. This paper aims tocontribute to this needed diagnosis by presenting some evidence based on the 1-2-3 Surveys conductedin seven African countries, which provides a consistent and comparable picture of the situation ofyouth employment in urban labour markets in these countries. We provide some evidence thatvocational education might be a good instrument for integrating the formal sec...
International audienceThis paper presents an evaluation of technical secondary education in Togo and...
Using a series of comparable labor force surveys in urban West Africa, we estimate the private retu...
While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for...
Les jeunes africains se heurtent à de nombreux obstacles au moment de leur entrée sur le marché du ...
Young people in Africa encounter many difficulties in entering the labour market and in searching fo...
Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012 “Youth and skills:...
Abstract: This paper explores the current on- the-job training by enterprises in the manufacturing ...
Formal vocational education systems in Africa are a very small part of formal education and training...
The study investigated the contribution of vocational education to youths’ employment in Mbeya Muni...
The aim of this paper is to provide a landscape view of the values and justifications of different t...
L'objectif de ce papier est d’étudier les effets de l’éducation sur la participation au marché du tr...
The value of the skills in an economy depends in part on the quality and quantity of the supply and ...
Although the debate over the returns to vocational versus general education has become an important ...
Young people in Africa are confronted with many difficulties when it comes to their integration in t...
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed co...
International audienceThis paper presents an evaluation of technical secondary education in Togo and...
Using a series of comparable labor force surveys in urban West Africa, we estimate the private retu...
While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for...
Les jeunes africains se heurtent à de nombreux obstacles au moment de leur entrée sur le marché du ...
Young people in Africa encounter many difficulties in entering the labour market and in searching fo...
Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012 “Youth and skills:...
Abstract: This paper explores the current on- the-job training by enterprises in the manufacturing ...
Formal vocational education systems in Africa are a very small part of formal education and training...
The study investigated the contribution of vocational education to youths’ employment in Mbeya Muni...
The aim of this paper is to provide a landscape view of the values and justifications of different t...
L'objectif de ce papier est d’étudier les effets de l’éducation sur la participation au marché du tr...
The value of the skills in an economy depends in part on the quality and quantity of the supply and ...
Although the debate over the returns to vocational versus general education has become an important ...
Young people in Africa are confronted with many difficulties when it comes to their integration in t...
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed co...
International audienceThis paper presents an evaluation of technical secondary education in Togo and...
Using a series of comparable labor force surveys in urban West Africa, we estimate the private retu...
While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for...