The relation between employment and entrepreneurship can be
termed as an occurrence in ambiguity. There are cases where employment is the
major cause of lack of entrepreneurship and other cases where the latter is
responsible for reduction in unemployment.
Over 70% of the youth in Kenya are employed in informal
private sectors or have started their own businesses, the reason as to why they
wouldn’t want to be employed is because of long working hours, poor conditions,
job security and low wages as opposed to the informal sector, where working
hours can be regulated, there is job security, working conditions are improved
and wages depend on ones productivity.