Département des sciences de gestion, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion (FSEG), Centre de Recherche en Economie et Gestion (CEREG), Université de Yaoundé II-Soa, Cameroon
The African continent is one of the continents in the world where the proportion of young people is as high as possible. Some of the major challenges facing young people include unemployment and underemployment, among others. In view of this situation, the question of employability and the employability of young graduates remains more than ever a highly sought-after object and a crucial problem facing the developing countries, notably Cameroon. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of vocational integration programs on the employability of young graduates. It emphasizes the importance of evaluation mechanisms in the direction of programs. The data of this work are the result of a survey carried out in the cities of Yaoundé and Douala on the employability of young graduates. Our sample is made up of 637 young people, including 143 beneficiaries of the various vocational integration programs. Econometric tests show the significant importance of youth employment policies. Indeed, the estimation of the model shows that the selection of the beneficiaries of the different programs does not take into account the temporal dependence of young people on the states that reduce their employability. Moreover, the model refutes the existence of a significant effect on the exit from unemployment in the post-program situation.