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Magnitude and Impact of Youth Unemployment in Ghana

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2011, West Africa Review

Youth unemployment in Africa today is of critical concern. Youths (ages 15-24) in the region constituted 36.9 percent of the total working age population over the period 1995-2005. Unemployed youths are forced to find alternatives to generate income, including survival-type activities in the informal sector and criminal activity in extreme cases. Urban youth unemployment is exacerbated by rural-urban migration. The article examines how the unemployment situation in Ghana is affecting the youth. Specifically, it looks at the magnitude of the unemployment problem facing the youth in the country and the impact of youth unemployment on the economy. A case study approach within the context of descriptive analysis was adopted. The methods of analysis include reviews of existing data sources and descriptive analysis of findings contained in the censuses of 1960 through to 2000 as well as validation exercise using information provided by the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The study recommen...

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World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development

ISSN : 2042-5961

Article publication date: 27 October 2020

Issue publication date: 15 December 2020

Creating employment opportunities for the youth remains a dilemma for policymakers. In many cases, policies and programmes to tackle youth unemployment have produced little results, because such initiatives have failed to consider some fundamental inputs. In Ghana, youth unemployment rate has doubled or more than doubled the national average unemployment rate in recent years. The current study, therefore, examines how policies in the past two decades have affected youth unemployment rate and other development outcomes.

Design/methodology/approach

The study reviewed national economic development policy documents from 1996 to 2017 and other relevant policies aimed at creating employment opportunities for the youth, applying the content analysis procedure. Four main policy documents were reviewed in this regard. Data from secondary sources including International Labour Organisation (ILO), World Bank (WB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) were analysed to examine the trends in youth unemployment rate, human development index and GDP growth rate in Ghana over the years. There were also formal and informal consultations with youth and development practitioners.

The results of the study show that policies that promote general growth in the economy reduce youth unemployment, while continuation of existing youth programmes, expansion, as well as addition of new ones by new governments reduces youth unemployment rate. In particular, GDP growth and youth unemployment rate trend in opposite direction; periods of increased growth have reduced youth unemployment rate and vice versa. The period of Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda I & II witnessed better reduction (5.7%) in youth unemployment rate than any of the policy periods. This was not sustained, and despite the current youth employment initiatives, unemployment among young people still remained higher than the national average.

Research limitations/implications

The study provides relevant information on how development policies and programmes affect youth unemployment rate over time. In as much as it is not the interest of the study, the study stops short of empirical estimation to determine the level of GDP growth rate that can reduce a particular level of youth unemployment, which is a case for further research. Nevertheless, the outcome of the study reflects the data and methodology used.

Originality/value

To the best of the knowledge of the authors, this is a first study in Ghana that has attempted to directly link development outcomes such as youth unemployment to national economic development policies, although there are studies that have analysed the policy gaps and implementation challenges. This paper, therefore, bridges the knowledge of how development policies affect youth employment opportunities, particularly for Ghana.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledged funding support provided by Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) for the work. We are also grateful to Paul Boadu and O. A. Fatumbi for review and editorial support. However, the authors are wholly responsible for the views and opinions expressed in the article.

Jumpah, E.T. , Ampadu-Ameyaw, R. and Owusu-Arthur, J. (2020), "Youth employment in Ghana: economic and social development policies perspective", World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development , Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJEMSD-07-2019-0060

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Addressing Youth Unemployment in Ghana Needs Urgent Action, calls New World Bank Report

ACCRA, September 29, 2020 — A new World Bank report titled “Youth Employment Programs in Ghana: Options for Effective Policy Making and Implementation” identifies agribusiness, entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, construction, tourism and sports as key sectors that can offer increased employment opportunities for Ghanaian youth. It also calls for more investments in career guidance and counseling, work-based learning, coaching, and mentoring to equip young people with the skills needed for work. The report suggests that although these are not new areas, the government could maximize their impact by scaling-up these priority areas in existing youth employment interventions and improve outreach to the youth.

“ This report is another milestone towards addressing the unemployment challenge,” said Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Ghana’s Minister of Employment and Labour Relations . “It presents specific options to guide the government in the short to medium-term to enhance effective coordination of youth employment programs.”

Ghana is faced with 12% youth unemployment and more than 50% underemployment, both higher than overall unemployment rates in Sub-Saharan African countries. Despite major investments by both government and private sector, this challenge will intensify if job opportunities remain limited. To tackle youth unemployment, the report highlights the importance of having disaggregated data on youth jobseekers by location, gender, skills and capabilities to inform policy and funding decisions and respond with appropriate and tailored employment programs.

“Ghana's youth employment challenge is vast and requires an all-round, deliberate, and consistent response,” said Pierre Frank Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone . “Considering the options outlined in this report, future youth employment policy planning should not only address youth unemployment but should also build the human capital needed to sustain Ghana’s economy.”

The authors lay out key priorities to promote youth employment in Ghana:

  • Importance to align formal education programs and skills development initiatives in the context of a fast-changing labor market that requires new and different skill sets, and to adapt to new technology.
  • Partner with the private sector —such as involving employers in the design of training curricula and introducing certifications for occupational standards in order to adapt to the future of work.
  • Integrate pre-employment support activities as part of the country’s current education system to better prepare young people for the transition to work.
  •   Promote social inclusion initiatives to improve access to credit and management training for women entrepreneurs, as well as improve both infrastructure and equipment available for persons living with disabilities and ensure that no one is left behind.

In addition, the report emphasizes the need for greater collaboration among different stakeholders to reduce duplication and fragmentation of youth employment programming.

This report is accompanied by an inventory of public job programs in Ghana to inform policy makers and stakeholders on the existing landscape of youth employment programming.

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Youth unemployment in Ghana: a research into this trend in the capital city, Accra

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Addressing youth unemployment in Ghana by supporting the agro-processing and tourism sectors

Subscribe to africa in focus, ernest aryeetey , ernest aryeetey former brookings expert, secretary-general, african research universities alliance - united nations university priscilla twumasi baffour , and priscilla twumasi baffour senior lecturer, department of economics - university of ghana festus ebo turkson festus ebo turkson senior lecturer, department of economics - university of ghana.

June 29, 2021

As elsewhere in Africa, the issue of jobless growth in Ghana has become a major concern, particularly due to rising unemployment among the youth. Services have emerged as the driver of growth in Ghana, contrary to the experiences in East Asia and other newly industrialized countries where manufacturing exports led growth and added capacity to absorb low- to medium-skilled workers. In fact, in Ghana, manufacturing has performed abysmally, with an average growth rate of 3.2 percent between 2008 to 2017.

Despite the generally strong performance of the Ghanaian economy over the last two decades, (albeit with a slowdown in recent times), there is a disconnect between GDP growth and employment—a trend that has persisted for many years, as the country has averaged an employment-to-growth elasticity of 0.5 over the last two decades. However, recent evidence points to the role of emerging high-productivity sectors, such as agro-processing, tourism, and horticulture, among others, that share characteristics with manufacturing (particularly in the employment of low- to medium-skilled workforce), in solving the youth unemployment challenge through the generation of decent jobs in Ghana.

Thus, to examine how Ghana might best leverage recent growth trends for job creation, we recently published a paper identifying which of these sectors might play this role in Ghana . This research is part of a larger, multicountry project on policies for enabling “industries without smokestacks” (IWOSS) to both grow and absorb low-skilled labor. (For more on this project, see “ Exploring new sources of large-scale job creation: The potential role of Industries Without Smokestacks .”)

The state of the Ghanaian economy

The Ghanaian economy’s strong performance over the last two decades has not translated into job creation nor improvements in employment conditions, especially for the country’s growing youth population (Figure 1). Moreover, the country’s traditional reliance on primary commodities—notably gold, cocoa, and, more recently, oil—for exports has exposed it to international commodity price fluctuations, making the need for diversification and structural transformation more urgent.

Figure 1. GDP growth and employment in Ghana

Figure 1. GDP growth and employment in Ghana

Source: Authors’ illustration based on data from WDI.

With an average national unemployment rate of about 6 percent, unemployment among the youth (persons aged 15-35) is much higher at 12.1 percent with an additional 28 percent out of the labor force as discouraged workers. In the absence of unemployment benefits in the country, unemployment is simply not an option for most people, particularly the youth who often turn to the informal sector to earn an income. In fact, 1 in 3 young people in Ghana are self-employed in the nonagricultural sector as own-account workers in vulnerable jobs.

Employment projections show IWOSS sectors will dominate employment in the future

In our paper , we find that IWOSS sectors—particularly agro-processing and horticulture, transport and storage, hotels and restaurants (tourism), and construction—will contribute a little above 50 percent to total employment by 2035 (see Table 1).

Table 1. Employment in IWOSS and non-IWOSS (2017-2035)

Table 1. Employment in IWOSS and non-IWOSS (2017-2035)

Note: This table is a truncated version of Table 20 in the full paper. Source: Authors’ calculations based on National Income Accounts (published by the Ghana Statistical Service), GLSS V and GLSS VI, National Budget and Economic Policy Statements. See Appendix C for the Methodology used in the projections to 2035.

The job creation potential of agro-processing and tourism

In our research , we identify agro-processing and tourism as the IWOSS sectors best poised to address this challenge in Ghana because of their high employment generation potential and the demand for low to moderate skills—a feature that is consistent with the skills spectrum of the unemployment pool in the country. Indeed, the prospects for both agro-processing and tourism sectors in Ghana are high in terms of growth and other positive spillover effects with opportunities for job creation. The agro-processing industry is dominated by micro and small firms involved in value-addition along the agricultural value chain in horticultural products, vegetables, roots and tubers, and palm oil for both domestic and foreign markets. In the area of tourism, Ghana has several natural, cultural, and heritage resources (e.g., historical forts and castles), national parks, a beautiful coastline, and unique art and cultural traditions that can be a source of great attraction to the international community.

1 in 3 young people in Ghana are self-employed in the nonagricultural sector as own-account workers in vulnerable jobs.

Moreover, these IWOSS sectors have been strategically targeted under the government’s flagship industrial transformation program to address challenges of job creation, promote import substitution, increase revenues from exports, and boost rural income generation.

What skills are required to develop the IWOSS sectors?

Despite this promise, though, a number of obstacles stand in the way of these sectors’ growth and ability to absorb jobs. Prominent among these challenges is the persistent skills gap among the youth: Our projections generally suggest that low-skilled jobs (i.e., those requiring less than secondary education) will continue to dominate, and their importance may decline only marginally. Thus, we find that deliberate public effort is required to ensure the youth can be absorbed in the IWOSS sectors, which requires upskilling.

To better understand the nuances of these gaps, we conducted a survey with a sample of firms in agro-processing and tourism in which we inquired into requisite skills for potential employees. Results from the survey show that most employees possess basic and social skills, which conveniently meet the needs of employers. Conversely, system skills—developed capacities used to understand, monitor, and improve sociotechnical systems and also sorely needed by employers—were found to be lacking in both tourism and agro-processing firm employees. Figure 2 reveals the differences between the current skill level of workers and employers’ expectations.

Figure 2. Skills deficit in tourism and agro-processing firms

Figure 2. Skills deficit in tourism and agro-processing firms

Source: Authors’ calculations based on survey data.

Importantly, given that surveyed firms largely reported that digital skills like data management and analytics, production management, mobile transactions, and social selling (in agro-processing), and online communication and mobile transactions (in tourism) will be vital to future employees, policymakers must strive to better incorporate such capacity building into curricula.

Unlocking growth potential of IWOSS and overcoming skills gaps

In order to unearth the employment generation capacity of IWOSS sectors, key constraints that inhibit the growth of these sectors have to be addressed. In the case of firms in tourism, such constraints include tax rates, policies, and administration; access to credit; and electricity supply. For firms in the agro-processing sector, these constraints include electricity supply, access to credit, unfair practices of informal competitors, and customs and trade regulations.

First, we recommend an overhaul of the overall policy environment toward the training of young people in the requisite skills to be productive in all sectors of the economy. More specifically, the government must prioritize and increase enrollment into technical and vocational education and training (TVET) for hands-on employable skills to support growth and provide a pathway for sustainable employment for young people.

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Second, the establishment of industrial parks, which is based on the positive spillover effects and upstream and downstream linkages associated with clustering and agglomeration, is often acknowledged to be essential for industrial development. Support to the private sector by the Ghana Free Zones Authority and Ghana Investment Promotion Centre for the establishment of industrial park infrastructure and special economic zones is anchored on such potential benefits.

Third, we recommend the strategic development of infrastructure as a critical stimulus to the drive for diversification and industrialization in the country.  Fourth, government should intensify efforts at providing long-term financing to support the value chains of these sectors and upgrade them to address the issue of IWOSS firms not being well advanced, with a relatively low degree of value-addition by all firms at various stages.

In the end, we find that the agro-processing and tourism sectors can be critical for addressing the country’s jobless growth challenges, if interventions like improved infrastructure, better access to long-term financing, and enhanced digitization, among others, can be implemented. These efforts must be complemented with various incentives to local firms as well as institutional arrangements to increase local demand. ( See the paper for a full list of policy recommendations. ) Finally, given the increasing importance of technologies in both agro-processing and tourism, the country must invest in complementary digitalization for actors to adapt and be competitive in the changing nature of work globally.

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  3. Graduate Unemployment in Ghana

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  1. Capstone Project Proposal: Youth Unemployment in Ghana (edit)

    Global. youth unemployment is estimated to be 73.4 million in 2013, which is an increase of 3.5 mi llion. since 2007 and 0.8 million above the 2011 level (ILO, 2013) 2. Overall, 40% of the global ...

  2. PDF University of Ghana Causes and Effects of Unemployment Among the Youth

    unemployment in Ghana. Furthermore, the near collapse of Ghana‟s industrial base owing to unsuccessful divestiture implementation programme in the 1980s has also contributed to the mess. According to Amankrah (2006) the youth unemployment challenge in Ghana is the outcome of the poor macroeconomic management since the late 1950s when Ghana became

  3. PDF Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill

    unemployment rate of about 6 percent, unemployment among the youth is much higher according to estimates from Ghana Statistical Service. Specifically, about 59.6 percent of the youth (persons aged

  4. PDF The Challenges of Youth Unemployment in Ghana: A case study of the

    Ghana youth unemployment policy documents and published journal articles. The major themes that the study seeks to establish through research are the challenges and causes of youth unemployment policy failure, the root of youth unemployment issues in Ghana, and the challenges involved in addressing the problems in Ghana.

  5. PDF St. John's University

    According to the GLSS63 report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), unemployment rate among people 15 years and above is higher in the urban areas (3.6%) than in rural areas (0.8%).

  6. Magnitude and Impact of Youth Unemployment in Ghana

    Youth unemployment in Ghana is a reflection of the imbalances between the demand and supply sides of the labor market. On the supply side, there are two main issues to be con sidered - the quantity and quality of labor. The growth in youth labor supply between 1984 and 2000 was 3.5 percent per annum.

  7. PDF Empirical Review of Youth-Employment Programs in Ghana

    one in five (19.7%) young persons is unemployed in the country. The unemployment rate for young people between 15 and 24 is even more severe (estimated at 32.8%; see Ghana Statistical Service, 2021). Unemployment is more prevalent among women (15.5%) compared to men (11.6%). Young people are often faced with a unique set of challenges as

  8. Youth employment in Ghana: economic and social development policies

    The period of Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda I & II witnessed better reduction (5.7%) in youth unemployment rate than any of the policy periods. This was not sustained, and despite the current youth employment initiatives, unemployment among young people still remained higher than the national average.

  9. Masters' Thesis Proposal on Youth Unemployment in Ghana

    PDF | On Jun 20, 2014, Alberta Kudjey published Masters' Thesis Proposal on Youth Unemployment in Ghana | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

  10. More youth employment programmes, less youth in work: A relook of youth

    Significantly, unemployment in Ghana is concentrated within the age brackets of 15 and 35. This age group accounted for about 72% of the unemployed in 2010. Although this has improved, the rate of youth unemployment in the country is still high, with the current estimate at 9.49% for 2020 (ILO, 2022).

  11. Addressing Youth Unemployment in Ghana Needs Urgent Action, calls New

    ACCRA, September 29, 2020 — A new World Bank report titled "Youth Employment Programs in Ghana: Options for Effective Policy Making and Implementation" identifies agribusiness, entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, construction, tourism and sports as key sectors that can offer increased employment opportunities for Ghanaian youth. It also calls for more investments in career guidance and ...

  12. Youth unemployment in Ghana: a research into this trend in the ...

    It increased again to 12.4% in 2012 and has continued to grow to 12.6% in 2013. This is 1.1% points above the 2007 level of 11.5%. Global youth unemployment is estimated to be 73.4 million in 2013, which is an increase of 3.5 million since 2007 and 0.8 million above the 2011 level (ILO, 2013)2 . Overall, 40% of the global jobless people are youth.

  13. Graduate Unemployment in Ghana: Challenges and Workable Strategies

    unemployment rate is above the worldwide unemployment rate, and compared to other Sub-Saharan African countries and other regions, Ghana has a relatively average rate of unemployment. Biney, (2015), opined that the economy of Ghana fared well in the 1960s and early 70s such that the issue of unemployment of university graduates was not a problem.

  14. Options for Youth Employment in Ghana

    Identifies opportunities and options for addressing youth employment in Ghana based on existing programs, global and regional lessons, and proposals gathered through a series of stakeholder consultations. Since a key employment issue for Ghana is the lack of productivity, which leads to low earnings, the biggest challenge involves finding ways to create productive employment, as well as decent ...

  15. Education, skills, and duration of unemployment in Ghana

    Nevertheless, Ghana's unemployment rate has been on an upward trend over the years, starting from 2.8% in 1984, reaching 3.3% in 1992, and peaking in 2000 at 10.4%. It decreased to 7% in 2003 and was expected to be 3.1% in 2006. However, in 2010, there was a significant increase of 5.8% in the jobless rate.

  16. Unemployment in Ghana: A Cross Sectional Analysis from Demand and

    This paper seeks to analyse the causes of unemployment in Ghana from labour demand and. supply perspectives based on cross sectional data. A logit regression estimation technique is. applied to ...

  17. Addressing youth unemployment in Ghana by supporting the agro

    With an average national unemployment rate of about 6 percent, unemployment among the youth (persons aged 15-35) is much higher at 12.1 percent with an additional 28 percent out of the labor force ...

  18. Youth Unemployment in Ghana: A Research Proposal

    The text cites an example of Ghana where the unemployment rate was 8.5% for educated youth and 6% for uneducated youth in 2003, as stated by UNECA in 2010. High unemployment among the youth has become a major concern in recent times.

  19. Graduate Unemployment In Ghana: Challenges And Workable Strategies

    Graduate Unemployment In Ghana: Challenges And Workable Strategies. July 2020. DOI: 10.47119/IJRP100571720201344. Authors: Ampong Emmanuel. University of Ghana. To read the full-text of this ...

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    This document is a research proposal that examines the effects of youth unemployment in Nairobi County, Kenya. It will study selected wards to understand the relationship between rising crime and youth unemployment, the economic costs of youth unemployment, diseases associated with it, and how social exclusion affects unemployed youth. The study aims to address gaps in understanding the ...

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  22. (PDF) The Impact of Economic Growth on Unemployment in Ghana: Which

    Table 1: The Impact of th e Various Sectors of the Econom y on Unemployment Rate in Ghan a. Source: Authors Computatio n from WDI. Number of obs = 2 4, Prob > F = 0.0034 and R-squ ared = 0.5462 ...

  23. (PDF) Exploring Graduate Unemployment Problem in Ghana ...

    The 2000 G hana Population and Housing C ensus i ndicate that the youth unemployment rate was between. 16.6% and 10.4% of the economically active population aged 15 years and above. The problem is ...