International Journal of Islamic Business and Economics (IJIBEC)
IJIBEC VOLUME 3 NO. 2 DECEMBER 2019

Determinants of Graduate Youth Unemployment

Gebisa, Diriba Ayele (Unknown)
Etana, Negash Geleta (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Nov 2019

Abstract

Today, youth unemployment is a common agenda and a critical issue of all countries; particularly in developing countries. In Ethiopia, lack of employment opportunities for educated young people is a critical development challenges facing the country. The objective of this study was to identify the determinants of graduate youth unemployment. To answer the research objective data was collected by a structured questionnaire from 312 samples of respondents, wherein a snow ball sampling technique was used and data was analyzed using mixed research design, descriptive and casual design; where a binary logistic regression model used to examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables. The result indicated that amongst the nine variables of the determinants of graduate youth unemployment; education, number of graduates, work experience, career advice, market information, family income, aspire to the low-income job, and education quality, all were significantly affected unemployment rate except entrepreneurial ability. As a result, based on these findings, it can be recommended that there is a critical need for government, NGOs and all other stakeholders to work on these determinants to reduce graduate unemployment.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJIBEC

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Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

International Journal of Business and Islamic Economics (IJIBEC) is an international journal providing authoritative source of scientific information for researchers and scholars in academia, research institutions, government agencies, and industries. ISSN IJIBEC is 2599-3216 and Online is ...