The objective of this paper is to analyze the determinants of employability of young people in Congo. To achieve this aim, we have combined both methodological approaches: the microeconomic approach and macroeconomic approach. The approach microeconomic highlights the microeconomic determinants from binary and multinomial logit models applied to the survey data of National Institute of Statistics while the macroeconomic approach estimates the macroeconomic determinants using the autoregressive models applied to aggregate data from the World Bank. The results show that the employability of young people depends on both microeconomic and macroeconomic factors. Take about microeconomic, education, individual gender, age; location residence and affiliate to a work organization are the main determinants of the employability. A macroeconomic level, analyzes have shown that GDP and gross fixed capital formation as well as imports are determinants of the employability of young people.
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