Youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa:
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| adam_text | Youth Employment
in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deon Filmer and Louise Fox
with
Karen Brooks, Aparajita Goya!,
Taye Mengistae, Patrick Premand, Dena Ringold,
Siddharth Sharma, and Sergiy Zorya
A copublication of the Agence Frangaise de Developpement and the World Bank
Foreword xix
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Authors xxiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations xxvii
Overview Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa 1
Africa s Large Youth Population 2
Growth, Jobs, and Africa s Labor Force—Now and in the Future 3
Youth s Transition to Productive Employment 6
Policy Priorities for Addressing Youth Employment 8
Human Capital: The Fundamental Role of Basic Education 10
Raising the Productivity of Smallholder Farmers 11
Increasing the Productivity of Nonfarm Household Enterprises 15
Improving Competitiveness to Boost Modern Sector Wage Jobs 18
Building an Effective Youth Employment Policy 21
Notes 22
References 22
1 Opportunities and Challenges for Youth Employment in Africa 25
Africa s Working-Age Population: Very Young and Growing Rapidly 25
Can Africa s Youth Bring an Economic Advantage? 26
What Is a Job, and Where Do Most Africans Find One? 28
Growth, Jobs, and Africa s Labor Force—Now and in the Future 30
Framework of This Report 41
Notes 41
References 42
Focus Note 1 Jobs: More Than Just Income 43
The Value of Jobs 43
Jobs and Aspirations 44
XContents
Jobs and Development 45
References 47
2 Youth: A Time of Transitions 49
Youth s Transition from School 50
Youth s Transition to Work 53
The Parallel Transitions: Choices Influencing Health, Family Formation, and
Civic Engagement 60
Challenges for Females Transitioning to Work 62
Facilitating Transitions from School, to Work, and across Sectors of Employment 64
Notes 64
References 64
3 Skills for Productive Employment 67
Schooling, Educational Attainment, and Work 68
Building a Foundation: Cognitive, Socioemotional, and Behavioral Skills 75
Building Skills through Post-School Training 89
Government Interventions and the Post-school Training Market 94
Conclusion: A Skills Agenda for Youth 102
Notes 103
References 104
4 Agriculture as a Sector of Opportunity for Young Africans 113
Agriculture: Potential Opportunity, Room to Grow 114
Recognizing the Opportunity in Agriculture for Young People 117
Agricultural Career Paths for the Future 120
Lifting Key Constraints on Capital, Land, and Skills 123
Land Policies That Benefit the Young 127
Enhancing Skills and Building a Better Educational Foundation 130
Current Agricultural Programs Deliver Too Little, Too Slowly,
to Meet the Needs of Africa s Young People 135
Harnessing Agriculture s Youth Dividend 137
Notes 137
References 138
Focus Note 2 Safety Nets and Pathways to Productive Employment 142
Short-Term Benefits of Safety Net Programs 142
Safety Nets Plus Explicit Productive Components 143
Do Complementary Interventions Open Pathways toward Productive Employment
for Youth? 144
Contents
Safety Nets as Vehicles to Deliver Interventions Aimed at Improving Youth
Employment Outcomes 145
Notes 146
References 146
5 Creating Productive Employment for Youth in the Household Enterprise
Sector 149
The Household Enterprise Sector Today 152
The Business: Constraints and Opportunities 153
Constraints for Young People to Enter the HE Sector 157
Creating and Sustaining Productive Employment in Household Enterprises 159
What Should Governments Do to Help Equip Youth with Skills for the HE
Sector? 167
Market Access and Voice 174
Conclusion 177
Notes 178
References 180
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Focus Note 3 Financial Inclusion and the Transition to Sustainable Livelihoods
for Young People 183
Gaps in Access to Savings and Credit 183
Formal Savings Services: Issues and Options 184
Formal Credit Services: Challenges in Expanding Options for Smallholders, Household
Enterprises, and Young People 188
Notes 194
References 195
6 Raising Productivity in Africa s Modern Wage Enterprises to Foster Job Growth
for Youth 197
Africa s Modern Enterprise Sector: An Overview 198
Modern Manufacturing Delivers Little Employment, Few Exports 199
How Competitive Is Modern Manufacturing in Africa? 200
Sources of Productivity Gaps in African Manufacturing 207
Making African Firms Competitive: Priorities for Improving the Business Climate and
Workforce Skills 212
Building Skills for the Modern Wage Sector 224
Many Options to Promote Competitive Modern Enterprises 231
Notes 232
References 233
Contents
Focus Note 4 Youth Unemployment in South Africa: Different Configuration,
Different Approaches 238
Conventional Perceptions of the Causes of Unemployment 238
The Real Unemployment Problem: Slow Growth 239
Inefficient Job Search and Matching Processes 240
Policies to Reduce Unemployment 240
References 241
7 Conclusion: Building an Effective Youth Employment Policy 243
A Programmatic Approach 243
Do Now for Now: Address the Constraints Facing Households and Firms 244
Do Now for Later: Take Action for Medium-Term Payoffs 246
Appendix A Note on Data 249
Standardized and Harmonized Household and Labor Force Data 249
Demographic and Health Survey Data 249
Boxes
O l What is a job? 4
0 2 The youth employment challenge in resource-rich and some middle-income countries
in Africa 6
0 3 What will happen to employment if light manufacturing increases dramatically
in Africa? 7
0 4 Youth employment versus overall employment 8
0 5 Framework for analyzing youth employment 9
0 6 Does labor need to move out of agriculture as productivity grows? 13
1 1 Youth versus overall employment 29
1 2 How are our employment estimates done? 32
1 3 The challenge of diversifying output and employment in resource-rich countries:
Examples from Central Africa 34
1 4 How are our employment projections done? 36
Fl l Employment, conflict, and violence: Is there a link? 46
2 1 Child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa 51
2 2 Intergenerational transmission of occupations in Africa 54
3 1 Estimating the returns to education 74
32A second chance at education for African youth 81
3 3 Northern Ghana s School for Life second-chance education program 82
3 4 Returns to behavioral skills in wage employment: Evidence from Peru 86
3 5 Developing socioemotional and behavioral skills in postconflict settings 87
3 6 Promoting socioemotional and behavioral skills 88
3 7 On-the-job training varies by country and type of firm, and it is not for everyone 95
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