Youth Labour Market Participation and Sectoral Choices in Côte d'Ivoire
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Date
2021-08-27
Authors
Simone, Edith Michèle Aka
Kouame, Akrassi Kouakou Evrard
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African Economic Research Consortium
Abstract
Several employment options are available to job seekers in Côte d’Ivoire. Four
employment options are offered according to the market structure. This makes
reference to the public sector, formal private sector, non-agricultural informal sector,
and the agricultural informal sector. This study aims at analysing the determinants for
youth labour market participation and sectoral choices. The data is drawn from the
National Survey on the Employment Situation and Child Labour (ENSETE) conducted
in 2013 by the Agency for Studies and Job Promotion (AGEPE). In this study, two
econometric tools have been used.
The binary probit model by selection reveals that age, gender and place of residence
impacts negatively the participation of the youth in the labour market. The individual
multinomial probit model underlines the negative influence of gender on employment
in the formal sectors (public sector and formal private sector). However, the young
women have up to 18% chance of being absorbed in the non-agricultural informal
sector. In the event that the urban area is conducive for all sorts of economic activities,
the young women’s chances increase to more than 50% in terms of their likelihood
to conduct non-agricultural informal businesses. The probability of a youth getting
employed in public or non-agricultural formal sectors decreases as he or she continues
to age. These phenomena create employability problem as underscored by the
outcomes obtained with the duration of unemployment period.
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Keywords
Employment integration , Public sector , Formal private sector , Côte d’Ivoire.