IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/aer/wpaper/369da8bb-5492-4e42-9eba-e8f0336ea5b0.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Sectoral Development: Assessing the Conditions that Drive Youth Employment in Key Sectors of the Nigerian Economy

Author

Listed:
  • Edewor, Sarah Edore
  • Kollie, Genesis Bhenda

Abstract

Youth unemployment is a condition that has worsened in Nigeria over the past two decades. This situation became more glaring since 2015 due to a decline in the economy arising from the fall in oil prices. Given Nigeria as the focus, this study assessed the conditions that drive youth employment in key economic sectors of the Nigerian economy by specifically identifying the promising economic sectors with job creation potential for young men and women; analysing the differential impact of sectoral growth on youth employment across rural and urban areas as well as on gender lines; identifying the key economic and political constraints to developing key sectors relevant for youth employment; and determining the specific conditions needed for investment in the identified sectors. T

Suggested Citation

  • Edewor, Sarah Edore & Kollie, Genesis Bhenda, 2022. "Sectoral Development: Assessing the Conditions that Drive Youth Employment in Key Sectors of the Nigerian Economy," Working Papers 369da8bb-5492-4e42-9eba-e, African Economic Research Consortium.
    • Handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:369da8bb-5492-4e42-9eba-e8f0336ea5b0
    Note: African Economic Research Consortium
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/3429
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:369da8bb-5492-4e42-9eba-e8f0336ea5b0. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Daniel Njiru (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aerccke.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.