As many developing countries around theworld, Ethiopia is faced with the challenge of generatingemployment for a rapidly-growing and youthful population.Ethiopia’s working age population, currently estimated at54.7 million, is projected to grow by two million per yearover the coming decade and this growth is unlikely to slowany time soon given persistently high fertility rates. Thefast-growing labor force, combined with improving educationlevels, the drive for industrialization, and the increasedscarcity of agricultural land, will have far-reachingconsequences for the social and economic structure of thecountry, the nature of work, and labor mobility and thegrowth of town and cities. This jobs and employment studyfocus on employment dynamics in Ethiopia between 1999 and2016. Using data from a variety of sources, mainly the laborforce surveys (1999, 2005, and 2013) and the Ethiopiasocioeconomic surveys (2012, 2014, and 2016), the reportlooks at what workers in Ethiopia are doing, how employmenthas changed over the past fifteen years, and how inter- andintra-sectoral employment dynamics have been associated withproductivity and economic growth. The report also aims toidentify which groups have been doing well on the employmentfront and which groups are lagging. To add context anddepth, the quantitative analysis has been complemented by aqualitative research study on rural youth employment,conducted in April and May 2017 in 16 woredas in the fourmost populous regions of Ethiopia.
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