Caractéristiques et déterminants du chômage des jeunes au Cameroun: le rôle prépondérant du diplôme et du sexe

Issofou Njifen

African Development Review, 2015, vol. 27, issue 4, 443-455

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In Cameroon, the stylized facts on unemployment reveal a paradox. The schooling level does not preserve youth from unemployment that affects more women than men on the labor market. Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze determinants of youth unemployment. To using a micro-data from the second survey on employment and informal sector, this study goes beyond the simple logistic analysis by adopting Blinder and Oaxaca's decomposition method to analyze the gender gap and the diploma gap in the likelihood of youth unemployment. The results show in particular the crucial role of education, female and residential environment in explaining youth unemployment in Cameroon. However, the analysis invalidates the hiring discrimination hypothesis of gender when productivity differences between graduates and non-graduates, advantages tied to the degree and disadvantages associated with non-degree explain unemployment disparities between these two groups. These key findings lead to some policy recommendations for promoting youth employment in this context.

Date: 2015
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