Arbeitspapier

Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between young and adult entrepreneurs. The model shows that for young entrepreneurs facing high costs of searching for business opportunities, support for training is more effective in stimulating productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8192

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Labor Economics Policies
Entrepreneurship
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Thema
youth entrepreneurship
model of skills and structural transformation
policies
Africa

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Brixiova, Zuzana
Ncube, Mthuli
Bicaba, Zorobabel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Brixiova, Zuzana
  • Ncube, Mthuli
  • Bicaba, Zorobabel
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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