Essai de chiffrage du coût social du chômage des jeunes diplômés en Tunisie

Nabi, Mahmoud Sami and Boughzala, Mongi (2009): Essai de chiffrage du coût social du chômage des jeunes diplômés en Tunisie.

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the social cost of unemployment and estimate it for the youth unemployed graduates in Tunisia. We begin by presenting the typology of the social costs of unemployment through a review of the literature. Then, we focus on the Tunisian context and conduct an estimation of the social cost of unemployment for the youth graduates. We use data collected through an original questionnaire targeting the youth graduates having benefited from the government program SIVP. Applying the methodology of Knabe et Rätzel (2007), we show that the social cost of unemployment for this particular category is about four hundred eighteen Tunisian dinars. This result enables us to suggest policy recommendations in order to incentivize not only investment by also enhancing the creation of jobs opportunities to the young graduates.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Social cost of young unemployed graduates in Tunisia
• Language: French
• Keywords: Unemployment, Social cost, Youth unemployed graduates, Tunisia
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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