TITLE:
Moderating and/or Mediating Effects on Dual-Type Training and Entrepreneurial Intention of Apprentices in Benin
AUTHORS:
Emile Aifa
KEYWORDS:
Entrepreneurial Training, Professional Integration, Unemployment
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.14 No.5,
October
18,
2024
ABSTRACT: The dual-type training program for certain trades, particularly tailoring and hairdressing in Benin, aims to reduce the unemployment rate in these sectors. This study is based on a series of observations regarding some trainees who secretly hope for employment in the professional environment and others who are still unemployed without making any attempt at self-employment. Its objective is to evaluate the effect of dual-type entrepreneurial training on the professional career choice of apprentices. Using an explanatory equation of the entrepreneurial intention of apprentices based on the theoretical model of Ajzen, the results first showed that only the variables “dual-type training” and “perceived social norms” significantly determine the entrepreneurial intention of apprentices in training. These refined results further revealed the existence of a moderating effect of social norms on training. Consequently, as an implication for economic policy, it is recommended that the Government of Benin intensifies or deepens theoretical entrepreneurship training and reinforces it illustratively through practice and simulation (social norms) in identified centers for this purpose.