Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)

Toward Employment Solutions for Youth on the Move

The S4YE 2016 Annual Report on youth migration draws attention to analyses and recommendations on the topical issue of employment dynamics of youth movement and migration. The report outlines the motivational landscape of youth migration and opportunities and constraints faced by migrating young people in terms of employment and reviews the evidence to identify promising solutions for responding to these constraints.

Skills Gap or Signalling Gap?

S4YE collaborated with LinkedIn to use LinkedIn’s unique data base to address the question: what is the alignment, or mismatch, between the skills employers are demanding and those among the young talent supply? It focuses on four middle-income countries (Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa) and analyzes 390,000 entry-level postings and 6.4 million LinkedIn profiles of youth ages 21-29 to better understand top industries of employment, as well as recruitment and skills trends.

Social Enterprises : A Win-Win Approach for Youth Employment

This brief discusses ways in which youth employment programs can apply the social enterprise approach in their operations. It outlines where social enterprises fit in the landscape of youth employment, characteristics that make the model suitable, the types of social enterprises that can function as youth employment programs, and an example of the social enterprise approach in action from Digital Divide Data’s (DDD) impact sourcing work in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya.