Determinants of graduate youth unemployment in case of West Shoa zone, Ethiopia

Today youth unemployment is a common agenda and a critical issues of all country. Particularly, it is the serious problem in developing country. In Ethiopia, lack of employment opportunities for educated young people is the critical development challenges facing the country. This study was conducted to identify the determinants of graduate youth unemployment. To answer the research objective data were collected by a structured questionnaire from 312 respondents selected snow ball sampling technique and analyzed using binary logistic regression. The result indicated that among the nine variables education, number of graduates, work experience, career advice, market information, family income, aspire to the low-income job, education quality, and entrepreneurship all were significantly affect unemployment rate except entrepreneurship. As a result, based on these findings, it can be recommended that there is a critical need for government to work on these determinants to reduce graduate unemployment.