A Gender Analysis of the Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Côte d’Ivoire

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to improve knowledge and understanding of the determinants of unemployment duration by gender in Côte d'Ivoire. One of the central questions on this issue is to what extent the personal characteristics of jobseekers affect their exit from unemployment. In this sense, we apply a proportional risk model with heterogeneity correction of Weibull (2004), applied to data from the Household Employment Survey in Côte d'Ivoire (EEMCI) that was conducted in 2012 by AGEPE. The results of the study reveal that young men are much more likely to exit unemployment than young women. Even if the results show a negative relationship between high level of education and unemployment, the high representation of women on the unemployment rate remains attributable to their very low level of education and the weight of tradition relegating the role of the woman, as a matter of priority, to housework.

An insight into Youth Unemployment in Indonesia

“…Youth who live in urban areas are more prone to unemployment by 1.4% compared to youth who live in rural areas. Similarly, Msigwa et al [52] and Mpanju et al [90] discovered that a youth who lives in an urban area is more likely to be unemployed and especially young graduates [91]. Furthermore, young people who live in Java Island is more tend to be unemployed by 1.9% compared to youth who live outside Java Island.…”