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Sub-Saharan Africa's Higher Education: Investment Decisions on Human Capital in the Presence of Youth Unemployment
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Issofou Njifen – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic relationship between unemployment and higher education participation. By using panel data covering 40 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2020, we opt to use a well-developed dynamic panel generalized method of moments estimator. The findings show that the youth unemployment rate has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Youth Employment, Unemployment