Youth Labor Market in Burkina Faso: Recent Trends

The paper starts with a detailed descriptive analysis of various labor market indicators. It focuses on employment and unemployment rates broken down along various dimensions, such as gender, urban/rural status, age, and education attainment. It also assesses the extent to which there are readily available human resources that could be easily mobilized in the context of, for example, government programs aimed at modernizing or refurbishing infrastructure. The next section provides a more analytical look and tries to pursue some of the issues in a more in-depth fashion.