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Youth Labour Market outcomes in Nigeria: Evidence from National Labour Market Survey

Covenant Journal of Business and Social Sciences

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Title Youth Labour Market outcomes in Nigeria: Evidence from National Labour Market Survey
 
Creator Isaiah Oluranti (PhD), Olurinola,
Theophilus. O. (PhD), Fadayomi,
 
Description This study examines the determinants of youth unemployment in the Nigerian labour market. The data for this study were obtained from the Labour Force Sample Survey of 2005, carried out by the defunct National Manpower Board. In addition to the descriptive statistics used in the analyses, the binary logistic regression model was employed. The study has empirically confirmed the magnitude of unemployment among the youths in Nigeria and that in 2005 when the data for this study was collected, the youths were more than three times as likelyas the adults to be unemployed. The data analysis also enabled the study to identify the basic determinants of youth unemployment. Some of these factors are the formal educational attainment of respondents, region of origin, household status, and household size, among others. Several policy prescriptions to reduce unemployment rate and increase both the participation rate and employment-to-population ratio among the youths in Nigeria were put forward in the paper.
 
Publisher Covenant University
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2016-02-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjbss/article/view/24
 
Source Covenant Journal of Business and Social Sciences; December 2013 Volume 5, No.2
2334-5708
2006-0300
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjbss/article/view/24/20
 
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