Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2022 · Oriana Bandiera、Ahmed Elsayed、Andrea Smurra、Céline Zipfel
中文摘要
每年有数百万青年进入非洲劳动力市场。本文利用"世界就业数据库"(Jobs of the World Database),将非洲青年的就业前景与其他低收入地区的同龄人进行比较。我们表明,在相似的发展水平上,就业率是相似的,但非洲青年获得受薪工作的可能性更低,尤其是在其同龄群体规模较大时。在现有关于针对劳动力市场供需双方的干预措施效果的证据基础上,我们讨论了促进该地区受薪就业岗位创造增长的政策重点。
Abstract
Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are similar at similar levels of development but young adults in Africa are less likely to have a salaried job, especially when the size of their cohort is large. Building on existing evidence on the impacts of interventions targeting both the demand and supply sides of the labor market, we discuss policy priorities for boosting the growth of salaried job creation in the region.