Determinants of Unemployment in Ghana

Baah‐Boateng, William

doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12037

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“…Accordingly, most students engage in formal education as a means of travelling abroad upon graduation and contributing to African development by means of remittances (Ngoma & Ismail, 2013;Osabuohien & Efobi, 2013;Ssozi & Asongu, 2015a) or being recruited by the public sector instead of engaging in entrepreneurship activities. The latter perspective is consistent with an interesting literature on youth employment by Baah-Boateng (2013, 2015.…”

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The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa

Asongu

Tchamyou

2016

Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies

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Purpose -The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa.Design/methodology/approach -Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank's index of KE are employed. Instrumental variable panel fixed effects are applied on a sampled of 53 African countries for the period 1996-2010.Findings -The following are some findings. First, creating an enabling environment for starting business can substantially boost most dimensions of KE. Second, doing business through mechanisms of trade globalisation has positive effects from sectors that are not ICT and High-tech oriented. Third, the time required to end business has negative effects on KE.Practical implications -Our findings confirm the narrative that the technology in African countries at the moment may be more imitative and adaptive for reverse-engineering in ICTs and high-tech products. Given the massive consumption of ICT and high-tech commodities in Africa, the continent has to start thinking of how to participate in the global value chain of producing what it consumes.Originality/value -This paper has a twofold motivation. First, given the ambitions of African countries of moving towards knowledge based economies, the line of inquiry is timely. Second, investigating the nexus may have substantial poverty mitigation and sustainable development implications. These entail inter alia: the development of technology with value-added services; enhancement of existing agricultural practices; promotion of conditions that are essential for competitiveness and adjustment of globalization challenges.

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The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa

Asongu

Tchamyou

2016

Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies

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“…Many young people find themselves in informal sector jobs, which is estimated to encompass approximately 90 per cent of the labour force (Baah-Boateng 2013). While statistics on the participation of different social groups in the informal sector are hard to come by, anecdotal evidence suggests that young people from Ghana's northern regions may be over-represented.…”

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Navigating Precarious Employment: Social Networks Among Migrant Youth in Ghana

Yeboah

2017

IDS Bulletin

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This article is concerned with the precarious employment situations of migrant youth and the supportive role of social networks. It draws on interviews conducted with 30 young migrants in Accra, Ghana. The empirical findings reveal that the precarious nature of young people's employment manifests in the uncertain nature of work, exploitation by clients and employers, as well as low and irregular income. These lead to socioeconomic hardships such as not being able to meet basic needs. The article further demonstrates how social networks strengthen young migrants' agency through the provision of financial resources that allow them to navigate hardships. However, exploitative practices are also inherent within these networks and this article exposes these, alongside the demonstrable benefits. Provision of financial support for rural young people to further their education, enforcement of laws within the informal sector and support for migrants' networks would help improve the situation.

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“…This exposure furthermore aggravate the overwhelming unemployment rate among young people in many developed as well as developing economies (e.g., see British Council 2014;Archer and Chetty 2013;Pitan 2016;Ajiboye et al 2013). Several recent studies provide strong empirical support for this contention (Garwe 2013;Adesina 2013;Page 2013;Baah-Boateng 2013Rudhumbu et al 2016;Edinyang et al 2015). This situation puts pressure on tertiary education providers to equip graduates with not only academic knowledge, but also the skills that will make them versatile in the workplace (British council 2015;Pitan 2016).…”

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“…Graduate employability has become an issue in HE in Ghana (Owusu et al 2014;Baah-Boateng 2013). Many Sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing similar problems of graduate unemployment because employers are stating that the graduates of many HEIs lack the requisite skills (Ajiboye et al 2013;Adebakin et al 2015;BaahBoateng andBaffour-Awuah 2015.…”

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“…It is argued that research into employability models should manifest broad theoretical and practical contributions to knowledge, by generally fitting different contexts and providing flexible tools which will enable stakeholders to understand the specific contexts of employability (Pool and Sewell 2007;Cai 2013;Yorke and Knight 2004). Taken together, the current policy on HE in Ghana of making graduates more employable to reduce the graduate unemployment problem (Garwe 2013;Adesina 2013;Page 2013;Baah-Boateng 2013Rudhumbu et al 2016;Edinyang et al 2015), places the notion of graduate employability more firmly at the heart of HE than ever before.…”

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Emerging trends and influences in Ghanaian hospitality industry education and employability

Sadik¹

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Whilst the scale of the employability needs of hospitality graduates is well known in developed countries, very little is known about this with regard to Ghana. There is concern in Ghana that the educational system is failing to produce employable graduates. This problem is more acute in hospitality education, where the curriculum structures may not support the effective preparation of the graduates for employment in the hospitality industry. In order to fill this gap, this research investigated the factors that influence the education and employability of hospitality graduates in Ghana, by examining the effectiveness of hospitality education in meeting the hospitality industry skills requirements and proposing a framework that will help to equip hospitality graduates with the employability skills and competencies required by the hospitality industry. To achieve this aim, a thorough literature review was carried out, which gave rise to the following research questions: 1) What is the current understanding of the concept of employability in Ghana, what employability skills and competencies does the hospitality industry need as a prerequisite for employable hospitality graduate, and how can hospitality education in Ghana meet these requirements? 2) Taking into consideration research question 1, how can the findings elucidate the problem of hospitality graduate employability in Ghana, and subsequently develop a framework to address the essential employer skills and competency requirements? Three of the existing employability models, USEM, DOTS and CareerEdge, were considered based on an extensive review of the literature on graduate employability. These models tend to be oriented towards developed countries and so may be not entirely suitable for studying a developing country like Ghana. However, the models informed the development of a Ghanaian Hospitality Employability Enhancement Framework (GHEEF) based on the findings of this research. The study provides evidence from the Ghanaian context of a lack of research focusing on the use and application of employability models for enhancing hospitality graduate employability, especially using the GHEEF to improve hospitality education. To answer the questions outlined above (and refine the GHEEF), the research was carried out using a mixed-methods approach to the data analysis which combines qualitative insights from the lived experiences of students, lecturers and employers regarding Ghanaian hospitality graduates' employability, with a questionnaire-based empirical measurement of the extent of the employability problem. An initial discussion with supervisors to achieve content validity in designing the research instruments was conducted. This was reinforced by a focus group study of hospitality lecturers, questionnaire surveys of lecturers and graduates, and a semi-structured interview of employers. The data analysis triangulated the research findings across these stakeholder groups. The main findings of the research include an acute lack of understanding of ...

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Determinants of Unemployment in Ghana

Cited by 84 publications

References 24 publications

The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa

The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa

Navigating Precarious Employment: Social Networks Among Migrant Youth in Ghana

Emerging trends and influences in Ghanaian hospitality industry education and employability

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