The conventional approach to labour force analysis with special reference to education : (an assessment from the 1976 Cameroonian population census)
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1982
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Fondzenyuy, John Lukong
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Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
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This thesis examines the Cameroonian labour force {with
particular reference to education) as assessed during the 1976 Population
Census and in light of the conventional labour force approach which was
used for collecting the labour force data. Apart from unveiling the
unsuitability of the conventional approach in the context of Cameroon,
it goes further to examine how, in spite of the suspected defects in
the data thus collected, the Cameroonian labour force was distributed
according to various characteristics like age, sex, sector or place of
residence, status of activity, employment status, etc~ and how these
characteristics interacted with education to influence the observed
patterns. Furthermore, the role of education in unemployment or
underemployment and rural-urban migration is examined. Although education is supposed to be related to.labour force
productivity, its individual contribution is largely still uncertain
mostly because other factors, besides education, are also important in
1abour productivity and above a 11, problems of measurement compound the
issue. Even then, mismatches between education and labour utilization
introduce doubts as to whether, in light of the heterogeneity of labo~r
and its educational inadaptability to most economic sectors, the matching
exercise is a realistic indication of labour under-utilization in
Cameroon or in other developing countries.
These .considerations lead to a suggested approach in the concluding
chapter. This approach seeks to compromise national labour force
realities with national planning needs~ In light of this, it restructures
the labour force such that pockets of under-utilization in relation to
relevant labour characteristics can easily be discernable by the policy
maker who reserves the right to determine what under-utilization is or
is not.
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