Breaking Gender Barriers : Vocational Training Vouchers and Kenyan Youth
Youth account for approximately 60 percent of the unemployed population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Seventy two percent of adolescents in the region live below the $2/day poverty line. Vocational education has been identified as a promising avenue for y...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/657811468088157439/Breaking-gender-barriers-vocational-training-vouchers-and-Kenyan-youth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25525 |
| Summary: | Youth account for approximately 60
percent of the unemployed population in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Seventy two percent of adolescents in the region live below
the $2/day poverty line. Vocational education has been
identified as a promising avenue for young adults to acquire
and develop marketable skills for employment. The Technical
and Vocational Vouchers Program (TVVP) was launched in an
attempt to fill key knowledge gaps in Kenya. The evidence
suggests that: i) by nudging women to acquire training in
lucrative male dominated trades; the information
intervention may boost the earnings potential for women in
vocational training. Additionally, ii) among those employed
at the time of survey, students with vocational training
were more generously compensated, with females enjoying the
greatest financial returns amongst voucher recipients. |
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