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Malawi’s slowly changing employment landscape and its implications for youth

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  • Todd Benson
  • Bob Baulch
  • Yanjanani Lifeyo
  • Priscilla Mkweta

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We examine Malawi’s employment landscape between 2004/05 and 2016/17, focusing on sectoral change and youth entering the workforce. Little evidence of a structural transformation in cross sectoral patterns of employment is found. The share of employment in agriculture rose slightly over the period, though the share of full time equivalent jobs declined in the sector. The analysis shows that younger youth are not participating in the limited employment growth in the service sector. Agriculture remains the sector in which most Malawians first obtain employment. Only later in their working lives are Malawian workers, particularly males, in a position to obtain work outside of agriculture. With limited structural change occurring in the economy, Malawi’s challenging employment landscape for youth is characterised by a scarcity of jobs outside agriculture and insufficient work within the sector.

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  • Todd Benson & Bob Baulch & Yanjanani Lifeyo & Priscilla Mkweta, 2022. "Malawi’s slowly changing employment landscape and its implications for youth," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(6), pages 887-902, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:39:y:2022:i:6:p:887-902
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2021.1915750
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