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Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa

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Bandiera, Oriana
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Elsayed, Ahmed
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Smurra, Andrea
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Zipfel, Céline
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal · Vol. 36 · Issue 1 · pp. 81-100
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London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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International Zinc Association, IZA
■ We thank Gabriel Leite Mariante and Caterina Soto Vieira for their exceptional contribution in assembling the data, and Anders Jensen and Tommaso Sonno for sharing their data. We thank the editors, Heidi Williams, Nina Pavcnik, Erik Hurst and Timothy Taylor, for comments and suggestions that substantially improved this paper. The data building and harmonization have been funded by the joint IZA/FCDO Gender, Growth, and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (G2LM|LIC), we thank Hilmar Schneider, Marco Caliendo, and Benedetta Musillo for supporting this endeavour.
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