Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of … economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth …

in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost … effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms claiming the subsidy with similar firms not claiming the subsidy … impact on youth employment on average. We see a positive and statistically significant effect on youth and non-youth …

. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage …

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region … faces a growing 'youth bulge' that is disproportionately burdened by un- and underemployment, capturing the votes of this … generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa's youth. In …

prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income … important domestic trade-offs between inequality reduction and poverty alleviation. …

an accounting-based microsimulation to assess the impacts on poverty and inequality. Government measures to alleviate …

association with poverty. We find that people seldom transition from one work status to another across all countries. The … India are associated with upward mobility. Moving up the job ladder is linked to the probability of reducing poverty in all … of poverty compared with a worker who does not experience such mobility, while in India, the corresponding estimate is 2 …