Tegegne, Tesfaye (2014) The Role of Micro and Small Enterprises in Reducing Youth Unemployment: The Case of Meserak TVET College Graduates in Addis Ababa City Administration. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of MSE in reducing youth unemployment, the case of Meserak TVET college graduates of the last three years (2010-2012) in A. A City Administration. The major sources of data for the study were 214 graduates, 80 trainers, 1 Dean, 2 entrepreneurial course instructors, and MSE development head office. The approach used in this research was a mixed approach which makes the use of both quantitative and qualitative description. To this end, questionnaire and interview data collection tools were employed. Stratified and Systematic random sampling techniques were used to select respondents of questionnaires. Thus, the collected data were tabulated, presented and analyzed by using frequency and percentage distributions. The results of the study generally revealed that out of the sampled 214 graduates, 73 (34.1%) were unemployed, 88 (41.1%) were employed, while the remaining 53 (24.8%) were self-employed. As the study revealed, factors causing youth’ unemployment were: Negative social and cultural attitude towards self-employment, lack of access to start up finance, lack of business assistance and support, mismatch between jobs available and larger number of new graduates, low economic capacity of the country to absorb the graduates, lack of guidance and counseling service, unfavorable conditions from MSE facilitators, weak tie among TVET, Micro Finance Institutions and MSE development head office were indicated as the major problems. On the other hand, it was identified that the major constraints that prevented the graduates from creating their own business were: lack of financial and material resources, lack of work site, unfavorable condition from MSE facilitators, and negative attitude towards wage employment. Based on the major findings, it could be concluded that the employment rate of Meserak TVET college graduates is more than the unemployed. Furthermore, based on the major findings and conclusions, the following recommendations were made: providing financial support schemes for graduates to encourage self-employment by strengthening the relationship between TVET institution, MSE sector, and Micro Finance Institution; recognizing MSE development as the top strategy in reducing youth unemployment; improving career guidance as a necessary mechanism for helping students to select a marketable field of stud; creating easily accessible credit, and loan services; and tracing of graduates.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2018 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2018 11:38 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7693 |
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