Glossary: Africa’s Youth Employment Challenge: New Perspectives

The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...

Promoting Youth Employment

Rubisco, an old challenge with new perspectives.

The importance of Rubisco derives from its spe­ cial role as the main catalyst for the flow of carbon dioxide from the inorganic sphere to the plant kingdom. Since its discovery as fraction I protein fifty years ago (Wildman and Bonner, 1947) and its role as the key enzyme in the Calvin cycle forty years ago (Quaile et al., 1954; Weissbach et al., 1954) it attracted attention for a series of sp...

Youth Employment in Developing Countries

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The Effects of Youth Employment :

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...