The impact of active labor market policies on the employment outcomes of youth graduates in the Tunisian governorates

Nadia Zrelli Ben Hamida,Salwa Trabelsi,Ghazi Boulila

doi:10.14254/jems.2017.2-2.7

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the impact of determinant factors on the employment of youth graduates in Tunisian governorates, and the effectiveness of active labor market policies. Our main objective is to identify the relationship between active labor market policies and professional insertion by considering regional disparity. We especially distinguish between the inland areas (the West areas) characterized by the highest youth unemployment rates, and the coastal areas (the East areas) where this problem is less important. This paper is different and novel. It is the first work that analyses youth employment by governorate using the database of the National Employment and Self Employment Agency (ANETI 2013) -relative to the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment. We have found regional disparities in the access to active labor market policies and employment. More precisely, the youth have more chance to be employed if they have more scarce qualifications, have participated to any active labor market policy and are from the coastal regions of the country.

Highlights

Tunisia is largely considered as a country that has achieved good macroeconomic performances
The finding in table 1 proves that model 1 analyzing the probability of participating at the active labor market policies (ALMP) and Model 2.1 of the employed that beneficiates of the ALMP, present poor discriminate powers
Once the ALMPs are introduced as politomic variable (Model 2.2), the discriminate power and the explanatory power become good

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Introduction

Tunisia is largely considered as a country that has achieved good macroeconomic performances. The economic growth rate reached an average of five percent a year. The growth was inclusive with a remarkable decline of poverty (from 32 percent to 16 percent between 2000 and 2010) and the income per capita of the lower 40 percent of the population has increased by one-third during the same period. Tunisia has performed significantly on most development indicators. The improvement of the country’s infrastructure, information and communication technology infrastructure, human development, education, etc. Is always considered as the principal objective of the government. At the same time and included among the priorities of the Eleventh and Twelfth Development Plan, youth employment is seen as a mainly key for development challenge of the country

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