Political Revolt and Youth Unemployment in Tunisia Exploring the Education-Employment Mismatch /

• Main Author: Schaefer, Isabel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Middle East Today
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Middle East-Economic conditions.; Africa-Politics and government.; Religion and politics.; Identity politics.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Middle Eastern and North African Economics.; African Politics.; Politics and Religion.; Politics and Gender.

This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch. Youth unemployment was one of the major factors triggering the Tunisian revolution, and continues to be a central socio-economic challenge. The Tunisian labour market is...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Labour Market Trends and the Skill Mismatch
• Chapter 3: Structural Causes for Unemployment and the Skill Mismatch
• Chapter 4: Educational Causes and Features of the Skill Mismatch
• Chapter 5: Recommendations: Three Avenues to Address the Skill Mismatch.