**6. Conclusion**

The purpose of this contribution was to analyze the determinants of the duration of youth unemployment in Côte d'Ivoire. Specifically, the author wanted to capture the particularities of long-term youth unemployment by gender. The proportional hazard model with heterogeneity correction applied to data from the Household Employment Survey in Côte d'Ivoire (EEMCI) results in the following results. Young men are more likely to leave unemployment than young women. The low level of education of these and the inadequacy of training in relation to the needs of the labor market largely justify this situation. In addition to educational level, the place of residence also determines the duration of unemployment among young women.

**Author details**

Toulon (UTLN), France

\* and Akrassi Kouakou Evrard Kouame<sup>2</sup>

*A Gender Analysis of the Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Côte d'Ivoire*

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85287*

2 Université Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

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provided the original work is properly cited.

1 Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD), University in

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This work could be enriched by a spatial analysis that would highlight the most disadvantaged localities in terms of workforce absorption capacity.

However, this may be possible only if future surveys provide information at the disaggregated level (departments or communes). Also, to enumerate and characterize the long-term unemployed are certainly essential steps, but must be completed by examining the way out of long-term unemployment for an effective policy implementation in Côte d'Ivoire.

*A Gender Analysis of the Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Côte d'Ivoire DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85287*
