High youth unemployment rates and long school-to-work transition times pose a threat to
low-income countries' sustainable growth prospects. Using a randomized control trial …

High youth unemployment rates and long school-to-work transition times pose a threat to
low-income countries' sustainable growth prospects. Using a randomized control trial …

We show that helping young job-seekers to signal their skills to employers can generate
large and persistent improvements in labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an …

We show that helping young job seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and
persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an …

We show that helping young job-seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and
persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an …

Online jobs portals can be an important source of labour market information, also in
developing countries. This paper presents an illustration from Mozambique, a country that …

Online jobs portals can be an important source of labour market information, also in
developing countries. This paper presents an illustration from Mozambique, a country that …

This brief assesses the effect of the length of schooling on how long a Technical and
Vocational Education Training (TVET) graduate spends unemployed. The analysis is …

This paper analyses the impact of the labor market experience of household members
(siblings) on young adults' beliefs about the wages they can expect and their investment in …

There are 420 million young people in Africa today, and only one in three has a regular
salaried job. We study how two common labour market interventions, vocational training …