Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National Institute of Statistics. Information collected concerned 45 firms spanning the period 2003 to 2005. This study uses the stochastic production frontier, distinguishing employees holding fixed-term contract (FTC) from employees that do not have fixed-term contracts (indefinite-term contract (ITC)). Results are estimated in 2 stages. First, we evaluate the determinants of the utilisation of FTC workers and second, we estimate the level of efficiency and productivity of two types of workers. Empirical results indicate that employees holding FTC are twice more productive than those holding ITC. Likewise, parameters indicating returns to scale are 1.3. This parameter, though not significant, is greater than one indicating constant returns to scale in the firm production function.labour contract, fixed-term contract, indefinite-term contract, production frontier

Labour contracts and performance of Cameroonian firms

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National Institute of Statistics. Information collected concerned 45 firms spanning the period 2003 to 2005. This study uses the stochastic production frontier, distinguishing employees holding fixed-term contract (FTC) from employees that do not have fixed-term contracts (indefinite-term contract (ITC)). Results are estimated in 2 stages. First, we evaluate the determinants of the utilisation of FTC workers and second, we estimate the level of efficiency and productivity of two types of workers. Empirical results indicate that employees holding FTC are twice more productive than those holding ITC. Likewise, parameters indicating returns to scale are 1.3. This parameter, though not significant, is greater than one indicating constant returns to scale in the firm production function

Niveau De Connaissance Du Don De Sang Et Disposition Au Don De Sang Des Etudiants Au Cameroun.

This work benefited from the active support of the University of Yaound II-Soa the Center National Blood Transfusion of Cameroon CNTS and especially of the Federation Cameroonian for Voluntary Blood Donation FECADOBES who after offering us a one-year internship entrusted us with the secretariat of several seminars and meetings of the actors blood donation This has been of immeasurable contribution to our understanding of the operation of the blood management system in Cameroon We also express our gratitude to the research team of the African Economic Extension Program PAVEN for its dynamism in data collection and of course our gratitude to the whole team mobilized for reading and improving this work By elsewhere the views expressed in this work should be taken as specific to their author

Internet Use in a Central African Country: An Evidence of Cameroon

The objective of this study is to identify the different activities that motivate individuals to use the Internet in Cameroon Specifically this is to show that activities related to the search for information online academic activities online activities on digital social media listening and downloading music online online watching and movie download online purchases and sales online administrative services and online sports activities motivate the use of the Internet by individuals in Cameroon The methodology implemented uses data from the survey of the practice of new digital media in Cameroon PRANOME carried out in 2021 in the cities of Yaound Douala Mfou and Soa under the supervision of the Center of Research in Economic and Management CEREG of the University of Yaound 2-Soa in Cameroon The results of the estimates made on the basis of the binary Logit model show that Internet use has a positive and significant effect at the 1 level on the activities of listening and downloading online music watching and for downloading movies online searching for information online and on digital social media This Internet use also has a positive and significant effect at the 5 level on online academic activities and a positive and significant effect at the 10 level on activities related to online administrative services purchasing and online sales and online sports activitie

Health and labour income of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon

The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners and monthly profits of the self-employed workers. This paper uses a simultaneous equation model to explore the relationship between health and income, allowing for the endogeneity of health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon household consumption survey. Using OLS estimates, we find a positive and significant effect of health on labour incomes for self-employed workers. Using TSLS IV estimates, we find that health has a positive and significant effect on incomes for self-employed women, but not for men. We also undertake a reverse effect analysis from income to health, using the ordered probit estimation process. We find that, for men, the effect of income on health status is positive and significant for wage earners. For women, this effect is positive and significant for the self-employed

Inequalities in effective Access to Obstetric Care in Chad

This paper aims to fill the gap in the literature regarding the inequalities in effective access to obstetric care in Chad by introducing the decomposition of antenatal care (ANC) consultation in a comprehensive model of obstetric care. The methodology used is the regression decomposition approach in additional to the Probit and negative Binomial Law. The results show that there are significant factors of inequality in effective access to obstetric care. The factors that contribute most to these inequalities are the income of women’s well-being, place of residence and level of education. Combating income inequality, promoting equitable education, and subsidizing transport resources can make the health care system more equitable and significantly reduce unfair inequalities in access to obstetric care. Based on the findings of this study, we propose areas for future research. For instance, it would be interesting to examine women's treatment pathways in their health seeking behaviour. This will make it possible to see women's preference in effective access to obstetric care in Chad

Does the academic performance of the Francophone education subsystem exceed that of the Anglophone education subsystem at primary level? Evidence from Cameroon

This paper aims to implement the differences in academic performance between students in the francophone and anglophone education subsystems at primary level in Cameroon Using data from the Programme d Analyse des Syst mes Educatifs de la Confemen organised in 2014 the study employs a two-stage modelling approach Firstly the estimation of educational production functions by OLS shows that student characteristics and school context are important determinants of students achievement in the anglophone and francophone subsystems Second the Oaxaca-Blinder 1973 decomposition method showed that at the end of the primary school year students in the francophone education subsystem perform better than those in the anglophone subsystem The share of explained factors contributes to increase this differential to more than 100 in both mathematics and language therefore it does not matter how much the unexplained share is given it does not suggest the existence of discrimination in school performance towards the anglophone subsystem This calls for policy makers to consider their role in reducing the various sources of inequality among students of all kinds particularly that focused on the linguistic-educational subsyste

The effect of women’s bargaining power within couples on contraceptive use in Cameroon [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]

Background The prevalence of contraception among married women, evaluated at 23%, is low in Cameroon. Maternal death rates, estimated at 782 deaths per 100,000 live births, are very worrying. The National Strategic Plan for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (2015–2020) and the Health Sector Strategy (2016–2027) focuses on increasing modern contraceptive prevalence as a means to reduce maternal death. This paper identifies women’s bargaining power as a factor that may stimulate contraceptive use. The objective of this study is to analyze the association between women's bargaining power within couples and modern contraceptive use. Methods The data used come from the fifth Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in 2018. Women’s bargaining power within couple is measured by a Woman Bargaining Power Composite Index (WBPCI) built through a multiple correspondence analysis. The logistic regression model was used to analyze the relationship between WBPCI and modern contraceptive use. Results The results of the descriptive statistics show that women's bargaining power is higher among women who use contraception than for those who do not. The results of the logistic regression model show that an increase of WBPCI was significantly associated with higher chances of using a modern contraceptive method (OR = 1.352; 95% CI: 1.257, 1.454; p <0.01). The education of women is also a key determinant since educated women were at least two times more likely to use a modern contraceptive method than uneducated women. Conclusions To reduce high maternal death rates in Cameroon, public health policies should not only focus on the health system itself, but should also focus on social policies to empower women in the household