Blog post by James Thurlow, Valerie Mueller and Julia Wilson. More than 20 million young people aged 15-24 join the workforce in Africa south of the Sahara every year. These young job seekers will need to find work in today’s more competitive global economy, and not everyone thinks they will be successful. Many governments are […]
Rural youth and employment in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 98, by Emily Schmidt and Firew Bekele. Abstract: This paper examines labor diversification in Ethiopia, focusing on youth, and explores current conditions that youth face in both the agricultural and non-farm labor markets.