Assessment of Self-Employment Job Opportunities Using Public and Private Organizations as Potential for Factors of Production in Case of Dire Dawa City

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify self-employment job opportunities in private and public organizations from the four factors of production viewpoints. Moreover, the study was intended to achieve the situation of job seekers (unemployed people) in Dire Dawa city, self-employment opportunities using the land, capital and enterprises in the premises of public organizations and private organizations are also analyzed. Registered unemployed people and 70 large scale organizations were investigated through questionnaire, template filling, focus group discussion and interview. Secondary data were also extracted from reports, magazines and bulletins of the organizations. 85 % of the registered unemployed are not graduated from higher educations. Public and private organizations provides source of land and capital in their premises. Government owned idle land was also another source of land. Job seekers are considered as labor and their coordination and partnership creates business enterprise. Finally, the study found that 15,855 job opportunities for job seekers in the study area.

Keywords: Unemployment, job opportunity, factors of production, self employment

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-22-05

Publication date: August 31^st 2019