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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| | | | |2009 |7.70 |8.20 |8.60 |8.90 |9.40 |9.50 |9.40 |9.70 |9.80 |10.10 |10.00 |10.00 | |2008 |5.00 |4.80 |5.10 |5.00 |5.40 |5.50 |5.80 |6.10 |6.20 |6.60 |6.90 |7.40 | |The current total unemployment in US is getting higher because of several reasons. Firstly‚ the reason of the current total unemployment is 10 percent and it is higher than the year before is because many of the citizens stopped looking for job and so they are considered as unemployed workers. They are technically workers that
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The unemployment rate is the number of people actively looking for employment divided by the labour force. The labour includes adults over the age of 16 who are employed or actively looking for work. The unemployment rate fluctuates because the previously unemployed people start looking for work‚ people who were employed lose their jobs and others stop looking for jobs. South Africa’s unemployment rate at the moment is 25.2%; the number of unemployed people is 4526 divided by the labour force of
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three types of unemployment are: frictional‚ structural‚ and cyclical (Littenberg & Tregarthen‚ 2009). Frictional unemployment exists because it takes time for job seekers to find businesses who are looking to hire and vice versa (Littenberg & Tregarthen‚ 2009). Businesses post wanted ads on job search sites and unemployed workers use the sites to find employers who are looking for their skill set. The time it takes the two to find each other is frictional unemployment (Littenberg &
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Advances in technology will result in a growth in unemployment. Technological advances allow society to produce more output from the existing mix of resources. These advances may take the form of less costly methods of producing existing output or may result in the production of new (or substantially improved) commodities (such as DVD players‚ HDTV‚ anti-lock braking systems‚ and similar innovations). Society clearly gains from the production of either more output or more highly valued output. Nevertheless
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social circumstances that are studied‚ unemployment is an issue in which sociologists thrive. Conflict in the areas of age‚ race‚ gender‚ and disability is common among the employed as well as the unemployed. From a sociological perspective‚ unemployment can be studied through both the Functionalist Theory and Conflict Theory. It also touches upon the results of unemployment in societies and institutions such as family‚ education‚ government‚ and health. Unemployment affects almost everyone to some extent
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Unemployment in United States Unemployment has been a problem throughout the United States since the beginning of 2009. In the most obvious sense‚ unemployment means “being without a job.” The term unemployment is one description of the economic condition of a society at any given time. Low unemployment means the majority of the labor force is involved in‚ or looking for steady work. On the other hand‚ high unemployment is an indication of an economy in recession or even worse. This implies that
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employers to post job openings that bar unemployed applicants‚ and by making unemployment a protected classification. As these proposed laws will impact businesses and how they operate‚ it is crucial for businesses‚ human resource professionals‚ and labor and employment counsel to understand the changing laws and the implications on employers with operations in each affected state. Once a better understanding of the anti-unemployment discrimination issue is gained‚ employers will be better prepared to
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TURKEY: SHOULD BE A MEMBER OF EUROPEAN UNION? Turkey has been trying to be a member of European Union for ages . In recent years‚ the progress has gained speed‚ and a great number of revisions has been done. Although some people think that whatever Turkey does‚ it will never become a full member‚ I think they are wrong because if Turkey does what it requires‚ it will be accepted to the Union‚ and I am one of those who support Turkey’s membership since I believe that Turkey should
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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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