Youth Labour Market Participation and Sectoral Choices in Côte d’Ivoire
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Date
2020-11-15
Authors
Aka, Simone Edith Michèle
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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 refers to
the public sector, formal private sector, non-agricultural informal sector, and the
agricultural informal sector. This article 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
negatively impacts 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. If the urban area is conducive for all sorts of economic activities, the young
women’s chances increases 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.