Browsing by Author "Gebretsadik, Daniel"

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    The Cause of Educated Youth Unemployment and its Socioeconomic Effect in Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-07) Gebretsadik, Daniel; Shiferaw, Tesfaye(PhD)
    Nowadays, the growth of educated youth unemployment is one of the critical problems facing Ethiopia. Most young people in Ethiopia are attaining their formal education with the hope of leading a better life and improving their livelihood. Even though, young people’s and their families expectations and hopes placed on education that is associated with upward social mobility and improvement of livelihoods, in reality, most youth in their post schooling life have to face unemployment challenges and remain jobless for an extended period of time. The intensity of the problem is high in Addis Ababa, the prime city of the country. Therefore, this study was set to identify the cause of educated youth unemployment and its socio economic effects in different areas of Addis Ababa with the goal of providing a better understanding of its prevalence. In doing so, the study identifies the major causes of unemployment for educated youth, assess the socio economic effects of educated youth unemployment in the study area and propose the solution to address educated unemployed youth problem. The study was primarily based on descriptive qualitative and quantitative data. The primary data were collected from 389 educated unemployed youths that are selected by purposive, snowball and convenience sampling techniques. The respondents were accessed from three different areas of Addis Ababa that were selected purposively. The data were collected through questionnaire and interviews. The data gathered through different techniques were analyzed accordingly to the objectives of the study. Based on the objectives of the study: lack of entrepreneurship skill, low quality of education, rural urban migration, mismatch of skill with the labor market, lack of good governance job selection attitude by unemployed educated youth and lack of work experience were identified as the cause of educated youth unemployment. Based on these findings some recommendation were suggested.. Key words: Young people, unemployment, labor market, educated youth, unemployed youth
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    Urban Poverty and the Housing Condition the .Poor in Addis Ababa: A Case Study of selected Kebeles in Central Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2011-06) Gebretsadik, Daniel; Mulugeta, Solomon (PhD)
    Like in other developing countries, population factors in Ethiopia have long been recognized as among the important variables of development. Urbanization in the country is now proceeding in situation where economic development and resource availability are not in congruence wifh requirement of the population. Since the last decade or so, Addis Ababa like others cities of the Third world has been experiencing accelerated population growth rates. During the same period, poverty has also become a serious problem in the city. Poverty is a reality that needs to be studied and then eradicated. In order to reduce or eliminate, it is first necessary to have a reliable poverty profile. This study, therefor, aims at assessing the condition of poverty in selected Kebeles of central Addis Ababa. The date used in this study was gathered through a questionnaire survey that covered 400 households in selected Kebeles o/central Addis Ababa. As the findings oj this study reveal, 47.7% of the overall interviewed households are below the food poverty line(could not afford the cost of minimum food consumption basket) with an average of about 21% food shortfall (food consumption gap) to teach the food poverty line. Considering total poverty, the incidence of poverty increased to 55.5%, while the total consumption gapCdepth of total poverty)averaged 25.4%. In spite of the variations observed, Kebeles with high incidence, depth and severity of hoth food and total poverty include Kebele 09 Wereda 02, Kebele 13 of Wereda 06, Kebele 32 of Wereda 07, Kebele 20 of Wereda 09, Kebele 21 of Wereda 14 and Kebele 20 of We:reda 15 and Kebele 35 of Wereda 18. It also appears from the findings of this study that the relative contribution of these Kebeles to the overall features of poverty in central Addis Ababa is quit high, which perhaps provide insight in to the nation that poverty has Significant regional (spatial) dimension. Evidence from the findings of this study, further indicated important demographic and socioeconomic corrects of poverty. Accordingly, poor hOllseholds are mainly those with big household size, headed by females that are widowed, divorced or separated from their spouses, old. illiterate people or people with low level of education, unemployed and retired people and people with iriformal occupations. One could (llso observed the same for households headed by people whose main source of income is with remittance ott pension. Housing is a highly visible dimension of poverty. Accordingly, it was found that sizeable proportion of poor households live in stnlcturally poor(law quality) rented housing units under over crowded condition where basic housing facilities and amenities are often lucking.