NGOKO Eric Hubert is a doctoral student in applied microeconomics at the University of Maroua in Cameroon. Prior to his PhD, he was a junior researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Microéconomie Appliqué (REMA) and the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Gestion (CEREG) where he studied various topics related to the economics of human resources, in particular, the economics of education and labor and participated in the writing of research reports. He uses primary data from the survey on the Improvement of Employment Policies in Cameroon carried out in 2017 by IDRC and CEREG to write his thesis on the theme: Essays on the transition of young people to the labor market in Cameroon. He is currently a doctoral student of the project "Youth Transition to the Labour Market in Francophone Africa" funded by IDRC: cases of Cameroon, Chad and Burkina Faso.