Unemployed graduates have become a cause of concern in Malaysia. The findings of a Graduate Tracer Study in 2006 involving 132 900 graduates from institutions of higher learning all over Malaysia indicated that 30.7% of graduates remained unemployed six months after graduation‚ while 5.7% were still awaiting job placement (Tan‚ 2007). The Minister of Human Resources revealed that more female graduates in this country were unemployed because they lacked the relevant skills required in the labor market
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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 graduates involved in the study
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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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NIGERIA’S HIGH RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT 18 Sep 2013 The government should move fast to curtail the scourge The chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment Programme (Sure-P)‚ Dr. Christopher Kolade‚ has bemoaned the rising rate of unemployment in the country‚ saying that no fewer than 40 million Nigerians are without jobs. Even before Dr. Kolade spoke‚ Nigerians were already aware of the dire situation as unemployment rate in the country has been increasing over the years. According to
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development. It is not possible‚ for a developing country‚ to ameliorate the quality of life of its growing population without economic growth. The relationship between government expenditure and economic growth has continued to generate series of debate among scholars. Government performs two functions- protection (and security) and provisions of certain public goods (Abdullah‚ 2000) and (Al-Yousif‚ 2000). Protection function consists of the creation of rule of law and enforcement of property rights. This
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PROPOSAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG GRADUATES BY UGWU KELECHI ESUT/PG/Msc/011/11785 LECTURER; CHIEDOZIE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION This research project titled unemployment and psychological
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The case of youth unemployment in Nigeria has been a popular discourse with various perspectives to causes and consequences of unemployment. The rate of youth unemployment has been alarming according to the National Bureau of Statistics. In 2004‚ young people aged between 15-24 years made up 52.9% of the total number of unemployed persons while those aged between 25-44 made up a further 41.1% . It is also estimated that there would be 14 million new entrants into the labour market between 2009-2011
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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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------------------------------------------------- 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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