YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT “A man willing to work‚ and unable to find work‚ is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under the sun.” “You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.” These observations by Thomas Carlyle and William Shakespeare respectively reflect what youth unemployment means to me. As I reflect on youth unemployment‚ several thoughts and examples cross my mind. Here are a few: Almost every week one reads in newspapers in India‚ my country‚ about farmers
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Youth Unemployment South-Africa is currently struggling with a large unemployment amongst the youth. The National Development Plan has identified a number of policy interventions to improve youth employment. In your view‚ what are the causes of youth unemployment and what should government do to improve the levels of youth employment? Identify the pros and cons of each of your proposals. “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime” (Chinese
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Effects of Unemployment 2011 4/28/2011 High Crime Rate Linked to Low Wages and Unemployment Recent studies show that low wages and unemployment tend to make less educated people commit crimes. The study was done on data between 1979 and 1997‚ when comparing unemployment and crime rate we found much of the increase in crime happened during the time of falling wages and rising unemployment among men without college educations. While the government focuses on crime
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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment arises whenever the supply of labour exceeds the demand for it at the prevailing wage rate. Causes of unemployment can therefore be analyzed from both the supply and the demand sides of the labour market in Nigeria. On the supply side‚ there is the rapidly growing urban labour force arising from rural-urban migration. Rural-urban migration is usually explained in terms of push-pull factors. The push factors include the pressure resulting from man-land ratio
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Youth unemployment in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan - one of the fast developing countries in the world where young people must become a major demographic in the workforce. It is difficult to assume that the «next generation» can be considered as a self-sufficient group of people in the state. According to the research of statistical organizations about a half of the world’s population under the age of twenty four is unemployed. Recently‚ in Kazakhstan‚ it has become a tendency that most young people
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lead to reduction of unemployment rates through both private and public investment according to the Solow’s model and endogenous theories of economic development. Empirically‚ the studies done on development have raised mixed up conclusions as some show that economic development has lead to capitalization hence capital replacing the labour and thus further unemployment. This chapter reviews both the theoretical and empirical literature on economic development and unemployment and in particular as
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and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 16; September 2011 GRADUATES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A STUDY AMONG MALAYSIAN GRADUATES Associate Professor Dr. Noor Azina Ismail Department of Applied Statistics Faculty of Economics and Administration University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia E-mail: nazina@um.edu.my‚ Phone: +603 79673638 Abstract The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of graduates’ characteristics on the chance of being employed. A total of 3‚025 Malaysian
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------------------------------------------------- Psychological Effects of Unemployment and Underemployment The current state of the economy continues to be an enormous stressor for Americans‚ with 78 percent reporting money as a significant source of stress (APA‚ 2009). Unemployed workers are twice as likely as their employed counterparts to experience psychological problems such as depression‚ anxiety‚ psychosomatic symptoms‚ low subjective well-being and poor self-esteem (Paul & Moser‚ 2009). Like unemployment‚ underemployment (e.g
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EFFECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT The stabilization of human personalities; every individual child or adult needs emotional security and a source of release from stresses and strains of every day life. This provided by emotional support of partners and the chance for parents to indulge with their children. This helps to prevent stress from overwhelming the individual and threatening the stability of family and society. Parents provides economic support to its members particularly when they are young‚ paying
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Impact of Labor Laws in Mitigating Effects of casualisation in Kenya Humphrey Mwangi HD333-BOI-1413/2009 Franklin Mutwiri HD333-BOI-1604/2009 Patrick Mutai HD333-BOI-0087/2009 John Warihe HD333-BOI-1268/2009 Susan Awuor HD333-BOI-1222/2009 Mary Mumira HD333-BOI-1246/2009 James Otunga HD333-BOI-1421/2009 Kevin Kariuki HD333-BOI-1249/2009 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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