Skill Development and Unemployment Unemployment is a curse to any economy. It destroys productive resource. It impedes growth in the country. It generally reduces output and aggregate income. It increases inequality creating a gap in between employed and unemployed. Apart from lost output‚ there is a personal cost attached to the unemployment. In developed countries due to high unemployment allowance‚ short term unemployment may not affect a person much but in long term its effect is a personal
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acceleration of its already high unemployment rate. South Africa currently has one of the highest unemployment rates internationally. This is the culmination of a long-term‚ yet steady‚ rise in unemployment that started as early as the 1970s (Seeking and Natrass 2006)‚ but which has rapidly accelerated in the post-apartheid period. South Africa as a developing country has faced a crisis of the high rate of unemployment in recent years. In the South African labour market‚ unemployment has remained a crucial
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economy becomes volatile. This is where the government steps in to collect data regarding the unemployment in our country. (United States Department of Labor‚ Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ How the Government Measures Unemployment) Where do the statistics come from It’s more complicated than just looking up unemployment insurance (UI) information. That is how most people tend to think that the unemployment numbers are determined. This couldn’t be further from the truth. When the insurance benefits
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Running Head: Brazil Unemployment Rate 1 Brazil Unemployment Rate Students name: AIU Brazil Unemployment Rate 2 Abstract Discussion of macroeconomics and Brazil’s unemployment rate and how it concerns its economy. Brazil Unemployment Rate 3 Brazil Unemployment Rate Macroeconomics is the study of the movement‚ trends‚ and changes in the economy over time as a whole (http://moya.bus.miami.edu/). Over the years South America has built their economy from poverty to
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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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| | | | |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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