Interventions to Improve the Labour Market Outcomes for Youth - A Review of Training, Entrepreneurship Promotion and Employment Interventions

During the COVID-19 pandemic, business closures have led to job losses which have disproportionately affected the most disadvantaged populations, including youth. Existing research on the effects of intervention to improve their labour market outcomes might provide useful information for policy makers.

In this Campbell systematic review, the authors searched for studies of active labour market programmes targeted at youth between the ages of 15 to 35 years of age in any country. They did not restrict their searches by date or language of publication and did the search in February 2014. They included 53 randomized trials, 11 natural experiments and 50 quasi-experimental studies.