the elimination of child labour is fundamental to promoting better employment prospects for youth children need time and energy to participate fully in relevant and good quality education to become skilled youth able to meet the demands of the labour market or become successful entrepren have higher incomes as youth and adults through inc or employees the share of wage employment increases with education and is much higher among university educated youth and adults than among those with no or little education everything else being equal not working in farming has a stronger influence on the likelihood of being wage employed than having tertiary education