Use of Icts: What Effect on Youth Access to Employment in Cameroon?

Abstract

Based on ECAM4 (2014) database, this paper aims at analysing the effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) based on youth’s access employment aged between 15-35 years old in Cameroun. The cases of employees of more than 15 and thos of more than 35 years old are considered for comparisons. In order to solve the endogeneity bias of the simple probit model, a robust instrumental variable probit model was used, and this gave consistent results with regard to the diagnostics based on the specificity/sensitivity tests. The estimates suggest that: (i) using the internet increases the chances of getting a job, and this for all age group considered; (ii) this increase it between 17-38% for youth, 0.39-1.118% for seniors and 18-40% for all workes; (iii) compared to senior employees, the young internet users are 25 times luckier to find a job. Finally, this result is in accordance with the literature which considers ICTs as the most important component of labor market.