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Youth Unemployment and Government Pro-Employment Policies in Zimbabwe
Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi/Journal of Social Policy Conferences, 2020 Youth unemployment remains a global threat pushing youths to participate in various unlawful and dangerous activities. In Zimbabwe, a weak economy and domestic sociopolitical challenges have pushed youth unemployment rates to one of the highest in the continent and globally.
MAULANI, Noah, AGWANDA, Billy
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Youth unemployment and government policy [PDF]
Journal of Population Economics, 1999 Young people of working age tend to be particularly prone to labor market inefficiencies that keep their wages excessively high and their employment excessively low. These inefficiencies are usually magnified through unemployment benefit systems. This paper examines how these problems can be tackled through “employment vouchers,” i.e.
J. Michael Orszag, Dennis Snower
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Assessing youth policies. A system of indicators for local government [PDF]
Evaluation and Program Planning, 2014 In the current European climate of economic, financial and political crisis and the questioning of the welfare state, assessing public policies assume a primary and strategic relevance in clarifying the results and contributions of policy actions. In this article, we aim to present the current situation in relation to youth policy assessment so as to ...
Anna Planas +2 more
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YOUTH AWARENESS TOWARDS THE MALAYSIAN PUBLIC POLICIES UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF PAKATAN HARAPAN
Public Policy and Administration, 2020 Public awareness is a drive for social change through the knowledge of social and political problems and the development of patterns for expression. Nevertheless, the degree of awareness varies from individual to another, particularly concerning public services, where not all people are aware of public policies formulated by the government.
Ju Soon-Yew +2 more
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Governance and youth participation in local policy making – The case of health policies in Denmark [PDF]
European Journal of Public Health, 2016 Background: An evidence-informed approach to public health policy making can support tailor made health-enhancing physical activity policies (HEPA) at the local level. Youth is often a core target group of physical activity policies and their participation in the policy making also should be seen as a potential way to make policies through including ...
Eklund Karlsson, Leena +2 more
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, 2021 This timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments.
Fergusson, Ross, Yeates, Nicola
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Toward an understanding of youth in community governance: Policy priorities and research directions [PDF]
Análise Psicológica, 2003 For more than a decade, many researchers and practitioners have endorsed a “positive youth development” approach, which views adolescents as active contributors to their own development and as assets to their communities. As part of this shift, youth are increasingly being invited to engage in community governance.
Zeldin, Shepherd +2 more
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Fragile utopias and dystopias? Governing the future(s) in the OECD youth education policies
Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022 Peer ...
Katariina Mertanen, Kristiina Brunila
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Land, Women, Youths, and Land Tools or Methods: Emerging Lessons for Governance and Policy [PDF]
Land, 2020 Women and youths encounter problems with access to land, as well as securing tenure in land resources [...]
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Governing of young people ‘at risk’ with the alliance of employability and precariousness in the EU youth policy steering [PDF]
Policy Futures in Education, 2019 This article focuses on neoliberal governing by the European Union of cross-sectoral youth policies directed at young people ‘at risk’. The aim is to show how the alliance of discourses of employability and precariousness in these policies has emerged and how these discourses operate in policy.
Mertanen, Katariina +2 more
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