Effet de l’Emploi informel sur le Mésappariement Education- Emploi dans les pays en Développement : Evidence du Cameroun

Education-job mismatch has become an increasingly recurrent problem in labour markets in both developed and developing countries. This phenomenon, which highlights a disconnect between the education system and needs of the labour market, has become a major feature of Cameroonian labour market, alongside an ever-increasing rate of informal employment. This study is focused on estimating the effect of informal employment on the education-job mismatch in Cameroon. The analysis uses a national data taken from the Employment Policy Improvement Survey conducted in 2017 in Cameroon. Two types of mismatch were studied: vertical mismatch (overeducation) and horizontal mismatch using the worker self-assessment method, and second, a bivariate probit model was used to determine the influence of informal employment on mismatch, taking into account the potential endogeneity bias. The statistical and econometric analyses show that: on the Cameroonian labour market, 38.49 % of workers are overeducated and 29.62 % are horizontally mismatched. These rates vary according to the employment sector. Compared to workers in the formal sector, workers in the informal sector have a 50.22 % chance of being overeducated and 42.8 1% chance of being horizontally mismatched.