This conference aims to provide a platform for leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to reflect and discuss the drivers of high-quality education and training and improving working conditions for youth, especially in developing countries. We invite contributions from economics and the social sciences that address the following topics:
- Factors encouraging the participation of youth in education
- Conditions enhancing decent work for youth
- The role of firms in improving education and skills for youth
- Firm incentives for providing decent work for youth
- Policies that improve access to quality secondary, tertiary education and vocational education and training
- Policies that improve working conditions for youth
- Policies linking education and labour markets
- Institutions and governance topics related to education and working conditions
- Success factors and barriers to education reforms
- Measuring the skills of youth in low-income countries
- Designing and implementing surveys measuring individual and firm outcomes