Based on ECAM4 (2014) database, this paper aims at analysing the effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) based on youth’s access employment aged between 15-35 years old in Cameroun. The cases of employees of more than 15 and thos of more than 35 years old are considered for comparisons. In order to solve the endogeneity bias of the simple probit model, a robust instrumental variable probit model was used, and this gave consistent results with regard to the diagnostics based on the specificity/sensitivity tests. The estimates suggest that: (i) using the internet increases the chances of getting a job, and this for all age group considered; (ii) this increase it between 17-38% for youth, 0.39-1.118% for seniors and 18-40% for all workes; (iii) compared to senior employees, the young internet users are 25 times luckier to find a job. Finally, this result is in accordance with the literature which considers ICTs as the most important component of labor market.
This paper quantify and decompose the Gender Gap in Access to Drinking Water (ADW) in Cameroon, emphasizing the international remittance impacts. To do this, a nonlinear decomposition technique is applied to the data from a survey of 5930 households led in 2012 by Demographic Research and Training Institute (DRTI) with the collaboration of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific migration organisation. We distinguish the remittances from only male migrants (MIRM) from those all migrants (OIRM). The performing a Boostrap analysis show a significant gender gap in ADW; and that female household heads have greater ADW than their counterpart male ones. Moreover, heterogeneity to remittance recipient widen the gap remittances widen the male-female gap in ADW, but the MIRM impact is largest than OIRM ones. Our finding further confirm the hypothesis stipulating that: adverse distributional effect of remittances depend onof household head and migrant gender. We therefore agree with already existing conclusions in the economic literature. JEL Code: D31, O15, F22 F24 J16
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