 Integrated Youth Employment Programs: A Stocktake of Evidence on what works in Youth Employment ProgramsNamita Datta, Angela Elzir Assy, Johanne Buba, Sara Johansson De Silva and Samantha Maria Watson No 30906061, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank Abstract: This Note is a stocktake summarizing evidence on “what works” in youth employment programs on both the supply and demand side. Employment outcomes refer both to direct and indirect job creation, including through firm start-up, as well as improvements in the quality of jobs as manifested in higher earnings as self-employment or increases in household income. This paper is based on an extensive desk literature review and analyzes the major meta-analysis and literature reviews on both the labor demand side and labor supply side.The supply side has a large body of evidence and evaluations of the whole Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) package as a whole. Kluve et al. (2016) and McKenzie, D. (2017) have a rigorous methodology and provide wide analysis and recommendations of the major studies on the supply side and provide the basis for that section. We supplement this information with key studies which had Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) or rigorous evaluations.In some sense the supply side stocktake is an analysis of a few existing meta analyses complemented by key studies not included in the meta-analysis. On the demand side the evidence base on what works for jobs outcomes is weak – so we used an extensive desk literature review. We include meta analysis where they exist for sections of the demand package (for example micro-credit). For both the supply and demand side, the team worked with experts across thematic areas (Agriculture, Social Protection, Entrepreneurship, Social Development and Urban Development) to ensure we had a mix of literature from the diverse thematic bodies included. The note does not look at evidence on policy reforms that address systemic problems. We recognize that rural and urban investment climates, regulatory frameworks, the overall macro-economic framework, human capital (education and training policy, basic health), are prerequisites for many interventions on the demand side of the labor market to be successful. In what follows, these fundamentals are taken as given and the note focuses primarily on interventions with specific identifiable enterprise, firm or farm beneficiaries, rather than broad investment climate reforms. Keywords: youth; paper issue; small and medium size enterprise; calories per person per day; labor market information system; young people with disability; identification of target group; problems facing young people; Education and Training Policy; active labor market program; quality of service delivery; health and safety training; subsidized employment; youth employment; Access to Education; job search assistance; formal sector employment; young woman; labor market success; labor market outcome; skill development program; effect on employment; conflict and violence; social security contribution; high income economy; soft skills training; access to finance; supply side; impacts on employment; Knowledge Management Product; competitive bidding process; high deadweight loss; investment climate reform; creating job opportunity; conflict prone settings; rural extension service; number of workers; total wage bill; early school drop; quality of job; working age population; peer reviewed journal; high school dropout; privileges and immunity; Early Childhood Development; internal seasonal migration; life skill training; access to network; access network; demand for labor; investments in education; Dual Vocational Training; high productivity jobs; return to investment; access to land; labor market policy; early family formation; employment protection legislation; standard of living; job placement service; quality of education; lack of property; income earning opportunities; household and individual; vocational training program; theory of change; lack of accreditation; wage subsidy; Wage Subsidies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:jbsgrp:30906061 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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