QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT IN CAMEROON: DOES SOCIAL CAPITAL MATTER?

Astride Claudel NJIEPUE NOUFFEUSSIE, Université de Douala
Cosmas Bernard Meka'a, University of Bertoua

Issues related to job quality are increasingly taking center stage in professional and scientific circles because of the stakes involved although the determinants of job quality have been widely studied in the literature, little is known about how social capital can affect job quality. To fill this gap, this article examines the effect of social capital on the quality of employment in Cameroon, using data from the Fourth Cameroon Household Survey carried by the National Institute of Statistics in 2014. Job quality is apprehended according to the multidimensional approach via the construction of an index from the Multiple Correspondence Approach on four dimensions, namely remuneration, job security, working time and job satisfaction. We mobilize the double least squares model, to address the issue of endogeneity bias associated with social capital. The results show that social capital has a negative and statistically significant effect on the quality of employment in Cameroon.