Street based self-employment: A poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?
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Keywords
Informal employment; youth migration; youth unemployment; Africa; Ethiopia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2015-06-27 (Africa)
- NEP-ENT-2015-06-27 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-IUE-2015-06-27 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2015-06-27 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2015-06-27 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2015-06-27 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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