Creating Youth Employment in Asia

S.Mahendra Dev ()

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Abstract: This paper examines the labour market characteristics for adults and the entire population. Then it analyses challenges and opportunities in labour market for youth. Next, the paper discusses the existing and needed policies for taking care of the challenges in overall and youth labour markets. It also provides conclusions and recommendations. We also highlight the gender issues in the paper. The recommendations include direct policies such as active lbour market policies, social protection programmes, fair migration and indirect policies like pro employment macro policies.

Keywords: IGIDR; Youth employment; unemployment; active labour market policies; social protection; maternity benefits; employment injury; disability benefits; migration; skill development; pro employment macro policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-10
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