Assessment of factors influencing youth employment in Rwanda Cross sectional analysis

Abstract

The present study has examined the determinants of youth employment in Rwanda by using the data collected in August 2018 RLFS by national institute of statistics of Rwanda. Both binary and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used in this study. The results revealed that youth mobility and living in household owned a computer were both positively associated with youth employment while being a female and attending TVET were negatively associated with youth employment. We have initiated multinomial model for examining the factors influencing the choice of youth employment to a particular economic sector. The study found that gender, computer literacy, English proficiency, TVET, Residence, access to internet, owning a computer and access to electricity were both associated to the choice of youth employment to a particular economic sector in Rwanda. Therefore, there is still a need of creating more jobs, motivating youth to work without neglecting any available jobs on labor market and improving Rwandan youth skills and knowledge about how to use modern technology as opportunity for self-employments.