Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

被引：50

作者：

Brixiova, Zuzana ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Ncube, Mthuli ^{[1
,4
,5
]}

Bicaba, Zorobabel ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] African Dev Bank, Tunis, Tunisia

[2] IZA, Bonn, Germany

[3] William Davidson Inst, Ann Arbor, MI USA

[4] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, England

[5] Univ Witwatersrand, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2015年 / 67卷

关键词：

youth entrepreneurship; model of skills and structural transformation; policies; Africa; PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP; SMALL ENTERPRISES; MICRO;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.09.027

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

The shortage of entrepreneurial skills has lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. This paper contributes to closing a gap in the literature on entrepreneurship and development by developing a model of costly firm creation with skill differences between young and adult entrepreneurs. The model shows that for young entrepreneurs facing high costs of search for business opportunities, support for training is more effective in stimulating productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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页码：11 / 26

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