improving education and skills and labour market interventions that improve the employability of young people the one measure that has attracted the most media attention is the youth wage subsidy it is important to recognise that no one scheme or model will solve the challenges of youth unemployment as some in the opposition would like the nation to believe what the subsidy seeks to do in essence is to reduce the financial cost or risk associated with not knowing the productivity of the person to be employed but it also seeks to help make the training of