Ethiopia Employment and Jobs Study
As many developing countries around the world, Ethiopia is faced with the challenge of generating employment for a rapidly-growing and youthful population. Ethiopia’s working age population, currently estimated at 54.7 million, is projected to grow...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/443391562238337443/Ethiopia-Employment-and-Jobs-Study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32093 |
| Summary: | As many developing countries around the
world, Ethiopia is faced with the challenge of generating
employment for a rapidly-growing and youthful population.
Ethiopia’s working age population, currently estimated at
54.7 million, is projected to grow by two million per year
over the coming decade and this growth is unlikely to slow
any time soon given persistently high fertility rates. The
fast-growing labor force, combined with improving education
levels, the drive for industrialization, and the increased
scarcity of agricultural land, will have far-reaching
consequences for the social and economic structure of the
country, the nature of work, and labor mobility and the
growth of town and cities. This jobs and employment study
focus on employment dynamics in Ethiopia between 1999 and
2016. Using data from a variety of sources, mainly the labor
force surveys (1999, 2005, and 2013) and the Ethiopia
socioeconomic surveys (2012, 2014, and 2016), the report
looks at what workers in Ethiopia are doing, how employment
has changed over the past fifteen years, and how inter- and
intra-sectoral employment dynamics have been associated with
productivity and economic growth. The report also aims to
identify which groups have been doing well on the employment
front and which groups are lagging. To add context and
depth, the quantitative analysis has been complemented by a
qualitative research study on rural youth employment,
conducted in April and May 2017 in 16 woredas in the four
most populous regions of Ethiopia. |
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