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Vocational Education, On-the-Job Training and Labour Market Integration of Young Workers in Urban West Africa

Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure (2012), Vocational Education, On-the-Job Training and Labour Market Integration of Young Workers in Urban West Africa. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/10596

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Document de travail / Working paper
Date
2012
Publisher
Université Paris-Dauphine
Series title
DIAL Documents de travail
Published in
Paris
Pages
42
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Nordman, Christophe Jalil cc

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure
Abstract (FR)
Les jeunes africains se heurtent à de nombreux obstacles au moment de leur entrée sur le marché dutravail, en particulier dans leur recherche d’un emploi décent et productif. Pour mieux comprendre lesdéséquilibres entre offre et demande d’emploi pour ces jeunes, cet article vise à apporter un nouveléclairage sur le lien entre l’éducation formelle, la formation technique et professionnelle et lescaractéristiques de l’insertion des jeunes sur le marché du travail, à partir des enquêtes 1-2-3 menéesdans sept pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest. La parfaite comparabilité de ces enquêtes permet de mieuxappréhender la situation des jeunes sur le marché du travail urbain en Afrique de l’Ouest. Cet articlemontre que la formation professionnelle favorise l’accès au secteur formel et procure souvent demeilleurs revenus que l’éducation générale, en particulier à des niveaux d’éducation élevés. Il montreaussi que les travailleurs sans aucune formation technique ou professionnelle ont les moins bonnesconditions de travail, alors que les travailleurs ayant effectué un apprentissage traditionnel, occupentune position intermédiaire.
Abstract (EN)
Young people in Africa are confronted with many difficulties when it comes to their integration in thelabour markets and their research for decent and productive jobs. Research on the links betweenformal education and vocational training and their economic returns are especially crucial inunderstanding inadequacy between labour supply and demand for young people. This paper aims tocontribute to this needed diagnosis by presenting some evidence based on the 1-2-3 Surveys conductedin seven African countries, which provides a consistent and comparable picture of the situation ofyouth employment in urban labour markets in these countries. We provide some evidence thatvocational education might be a good instrument for integrating the formal sector and that it is oftenmore profitable than general education in terms of earnings and firm performance, especially at higherlevels of schooling. Overall, young workers without any formal vocational education and training arethe more disadvantaged in terms of working conditions, while workers who benefited from atraditional apprenticeship in a small firm occupy an intermediate position.
Subjects / Keywords
Vocational education; Formation professionnelle; Jeunes; Youth; Afrique de l’Ouest; Labour market; West Africa; Formation sur le tas; On-the-job training; Marché du travail
JEL
J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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