The Nexus between Urban Property Crime and Unemployment in Addis Ababa: The Case of Addis Ketema Sub-City Wereda 8
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ketema, Wakjira (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mesay, Tsegaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-24T13:00:14Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:19:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-24T13:00:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:19:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07 | |
| dc.description | A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters in Public Management and Policy | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Economic factors have an influence on the state of people’s lives which in turn influence their behavior. The main objective of this thesis is to examine the nexus between urban property crime and unemployment in Addis Ababa with particular emphasis on Addis Ketema sub-city wereda 8. The study assessed the influence of unemployment that prompt criminal behavior. The study employed descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analysis data. Primary data were collected from 90 respondents through Close-ended questionnaire, semi-structured open-ended key informant interview and document analysis. Probability and Non-probability sampling technique was used to select a sample. The statistical package for social science (SPSS) was used in data entry. As the findings of the study show, unemployment influences the tendency of individuals to commit urban property crime; unemployed individuals highly involved on urban property crime than employed individuals, unemployed rural-urban migrants contribute for the prevalence rate of unemployment as well as urban property crime. On the basis of the findings, the researcher recommended that, the creation of adequate job opportunities especially for youth unemployed, enhancing and expanding the capacity of small and micro enterprises, properly implement the youth employment policy and unemployment reduction policy in order to their objective, enhancing the entrepreneurship skill of the students by giving entrepreneurship as one subject in all educational institution, while create an appropriate rural-urban economic balance to reduce unemployed migrants. In conclusion, unemployment has an influence on the incidences and prevalence of urban property crime. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/20704 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Property crimes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Unemployment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Urban crime | en_US |
| dc.title | The Nexus between Urban Property Crime and Unemployment in Addis Ababa: The Case of Addis Ketema Sub-City Wereda 8 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |