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The impact of the PDEF on the labour market outcomes of «high-skilled» workers in Senegal

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  • Alexandre Larouche
  • Dorothée Boccanfuso
  • Mircea Trandafir

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It is through a United-Nations initiative and as part of the Millennium Development Goals that Senegal launched in 2000 the "Development Program for Education and Formation" (PDEF). Among others, this educational reform affected the sector of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the PDEF on the labour market outcomes of those individuals who reached this level of education. Specifically, we seek to determine whether individuals who have benefited from improvements from the reform are employed more often. Using data from two surveys on the Senegalese population, we use the method of difference-in-differences to estimate the effect of the reform. The main contribution of this paper is therefore to give a first overview of the impact attributable to the PDEF on the sample selected. Our approach determines a range of values for the true effect. Thus, our results show that the PDEF allows to benefit a positive advantage between 4.3 and 38.96 percentage points in the probability of being in employment. See above See above

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  • Alexandre Larouche & Dorothée Boccanfuso & Mircea Trandafir, 2011. "The impact of the PDEF on the labour market outcomes of «high-skilled» workers in Senegal," EcoMod2011 3572, EcoMod.
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