book chapter

Rural youth and employment in Ethiopia

by Emily Schmidt and
Firew Bekele Woldeyes
Publisher(s): international food policy research institute (ifpri)oxford university press
Open Access | CC BY-NC-4.0
Citation
Schmidt, Emily; and Woldeyes, Firew Bekele. 2019. Rural youth and employment in Ethiopia. In Youth and jobs in rural Africa: Beyond stylized facts. Mueller, Valerie; and Thurlow, James (Eds.). Chapter 5, Pp. 109-136. New York, NY: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848059.003.0005

Chapter 5 focuses on Ethiopia’s land constraints and asks if this is driving youth off the farm and into the rural nonfarm economy.