Conference on “Education and Decent Work for Youth”: Call for Papers

The Swiss Economic Institute KOF together with NADEL will hold the international conference on “Education and Decent Work for Youth” on 4-5 June 2020 at ETH Zurich. The aim of the international and interdisciplinary conference is to provide a platform for leading development scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to reflect on the determinants of improving education and the working conditions for youth in developing countries.

They invite contributions from economics, sociology and educational science that address the following (or closely related) topics for low- and middle-income countries:

• Factors encouraging the participation of youth in education
• Conditions enhancing decent work for youth
• The role of firms in improving education and youth skills
• Incentives of firms to provide decent work for youth
• Policies that improve access to and quality of secondary and tertiary education and vocational skills training
• Policies for improved youth working conditions
• Policies linking education and labor markets
• Institutions and governance related to education and working conditions
• Success factors and barriers to education reform
• Measuring skills of youth in low- and middle-income countries
• Designing and implementing surveys measuring individual and firm outcomes

More information about the conference here.