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Tackling Youth Unemployment through Vocational Training and Apprenticeships

Research Note
Published on 14 March 2018

Abstract

This study finds that vocational training and apprenticeships both raise employment of poor Ugandan youth, but vocational training provides general skills that foster mobility and result in higher earnings.

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