Employment and skill mismatch among youth constitute a major obstacle for access to the job market in the Middle East and North African region. The purpose of this paper is to explore factors explaining employment and the perception of the skill-mismatch problem among the youth in Lebanon using a novel data set covering young people aged from 15 to 29. The paper provides a set of empirical insights that help in the design of public policy targeting school-to-work transition.,The authors control for a rich set of youth and household characteristics to jointly estimate the probability of being employed and the likelihood of reporting a skill-mismatch problem. The empirical analysis uses a bivariate probit model where the first equation estimates the employment status while the second estimates the determinants of skill-mismatch perceptions. The bivariate probit model considers the error terms in both equations to be correlated and the model tests for such a correlation. The authors estimate the model recursively by controlling for the employment dummy variable in the skill-mismatch equation since employed youth could be more or less likely to perceive the skill mismatch. The estimation is conducted first over the whole sample of youth, and then it is implemented by gender and region.,The authors find that youth employment is mainly correlated with age, being male, being single, having received vocational training and financial support from parents, living with parents and receiving current education. The skill-mismatch perceptions are mainly driven by being male, being single, having received post-secondary education and belonging to upper and middle social classes. The authors also find that employability level and skill-mismatch problems are jointly determined in the labor market for males and in the core region only.,The paper covers a country that is neglected in the literature on the employment-skill mismatch nexus in the context of school-to-work transition. The study also uses a novel data set focusing on youth. The paper contributes to our understanding of the school-to-work transition in particular and to the youth-to-adulthood transition in general.

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黎巴嫩青年人的就业和技能不匹配

青年人的就业和技能失配是进入中东和北非地区就业市场的主要障碍。本文的目的是使用涵盖15至29岁年轻人的新颖数据集，探讨解释黎巴嫩年轻人就业和对技能不匹配问题的认识的因素。本文提供了一组经验性的见解，可帮助针对学校到工作过渡的公共政策设计。作者控制了一组丰富的青年和家庭特征，以共同估计受雇的可能性和报告技能不匹配问题的可能性。实证分析使用双变量概率模型，其中第一个方程估算就业状况，而第二个方程估算技能不匹配感知的决定因素。双变量概率模型将两个方程式中的误差项相关联，并针对这种相关性进行模型测试。由于在职青年可能或多或少地感觉到技能不匹配，因此作者通过控制技能不匹配方程中的就业虚拟变量来递归估计模型。该估计首先在整个青年样本中进行，然后按性别和地区来实施。作者发现，青年就业主要与年龄，男性，单身，受过职业培训和父母的财政支持有关。 ，与父母同住并接受当前的教育。技能不匹配的观念主要是由男性，单身，受过专上教育并属于上层和中层社会阶层构成的。作者还发现，就业水平和技能不匹配问题是由男性劳动力市场和仅在核心地区共同决定的。本文涵盖了一个在背景下有关就业技能不匹配关系的文献中被忽略的国家。从学校到工作的过渡。该研究还使用了针对年轻人的新颖数据集。本文有助于我们对从学校到工作的过渡尤其是从青年到成人的过渡的理解。