|
|
AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Show panel list
A Dual Employment among Ghanaian Graduates?
| Panel |
12. African entrepreneurs and/in emerging markets: towards a situational understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour?
|
| Paper ID | 283 |
| Author(s) |
Awortwe-Abban, Jerome Rudolf
|
| Paper |
View paper (PDF)
|
| Abstract | The paper looks at dual employment as a new arrangement of labour market in Ghana. It examines 45 graduates who have traversed different pre-enterprise learning channels, namely, the Traditional Apprenticeship Programme, the Tema Technical Institute (TTI) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and who run their own businesses for at least three years in one of the five trade/industry areas - ICT, Electrical Installation, Electrical Rewinding, Carpentry and Joinery, and Tailoring and Dressmaking.
The paper explores the background characteristics of the graduates as well as some underpinning factors in explaining their simultaneous involvement in both wage employment (public and private) and self employment (formal and informal) and eventual settlement on the latter.
The study, which is an exploratory and a qualitative one, is based on interview data, descriptive data analysis and the graduates’ own employment values and the evolution of their businesses. Preliminary analysis of the data indicates relationship between involvement in dual employment and pre-enterprise learning channel, educational level, Ghana’s educational systems, gender, trade/industry type, type of self employment, level of satisfaction with self employed business and age of the graduates.
|
|