Creating Youth Employment in Asia

Published By: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | Published Date: October, 01 , 2014

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.

Author(s): S.Mahendra Dev | Posted on: Oct 15, 2014 | Views(801) | Download (1014)


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