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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013

By International Labour Organization, May 8, 2013

The  weakening  of  the  global  recovery  in  2012  and  2013  has  further  aggravated  the youth jobs crisis and  the queues  for available jobs have become longer and longer  for some unfortunate young jobseekers. So long, in  fact,  that many youth are giving up on the job search. The prolonged jobs crisis also forces the current generation of youth to be less selective about the type of job they are prepared to accept, a tendency that was already  evident  before  the  crisis.

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Entrepreneurship training and self-employment among university graduates: Evidence from a randomized trial in Tunisia

By Premand, Patrick; Brodmann, Stefanie; Almedia, Rita; Grun, Rebekka and Mahdi Barouni from World Bank, 2012

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment such as the Middle East and North Africa, entrepreneurship training delivered in school has the potential to enable youth to create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquée were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. We rely on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track among applicants and identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. We find that the entrepreneurship track was effective in increasing self-employment, but that the effects are small in absolute terms. In addition, the employment rate among beneficiaries remains unchanged, pointing to a substitution from wage employment to self-employment.

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Case Study

Measuring Success of Youth Livelihood Interventions: A Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation

By Hempel, Kevin and Nathan Fiala from Global Partnership for Youth Employment, 2012

This Guide helps decide what type of evaluation is appropriate given the characteristics and context of an intervention and provides the basic set of concepts and tools to carry out impact evaluations.

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Video: Markus Goldstein Discusses Adolescent Girls' Empowerment

By Markus Goldstein from The World Bank, Sep 12, 2012

Watch Markus Goldstein, Senior Economist at the World Bank, speak about an adolescent girls' empowerment project in Uganda implemented by BRAC and the World Bank. The project focuses on providing four key elements: a safe social space for girls, life skills training, vocational training, and access to microfinance. In this video interview, Goldstein shares the promising results of rigorous impact evaluations that found that girls in the program are working more, earning more, and are 75 percent less likely to have had sex against their will.

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Youth in Development: Realizing the Demographic Opportunity

By USAID, Oct, 2012

This Policy on Youth in Development is the first of its kind for USAID. It is both timely and necessary as more than half of the world’s population today is under the age of 30, with the vast majority living in the developing world.As Secretary Clinton said in Tunisia in February 2012,“…in every region, responding to the needs and aspirations of young people is a crucial challenge for the future." The policy is predicated on emerging best and promising practice for youth development and engagement that are gleaned from USAID and partner’s experience in youth programming, as well as through consultations with young people across the developing world.The policy is further informed by principles and practices articulated in the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development (PPD), the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), the National Security Strategy 2010, State Department Youth Policy 2011, USAID Forward, and the USAID Policy Framework 20112015.

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