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

By Zuzana Brixiová, Mthuli Ncube, Zorobabel T. Bicaba. Social Science Research Network, 2014

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The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between young and adult entrepreneurs. The model shows that for young entrepreneurs facing high costs of searching 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 productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of entrepreneurs in Swaziland.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Challenges of Doing Business in Africa: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “Hence, the relevance of private sector investment, entrepreneurship and doing business, in addressing the unemployment associated with rapid population growth (Brixiová et al., 2015).”