Youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges the world is facing today: young people make up almost half of the world’s unemployed‚ despite accounting for only one quarter of the working population. Youth unemployment is the unemployment of young people‚ defined by the United Nations as 14–28 years old. An unemployed person is defined as someone who does not have a job but is actively seeking work. In order to qualify as unemployed for official and statistical measurement‚ the individual
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Unemployment Unemployment occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work. Africa is deeply affected with a high rate of unemployment especially among the youth. Africa is now having the most youthful population in the world with the youth covering close to between 60% and 70% of the continents population. This menace poses great threats to the strength and growth of Africa. Though unemployment is seen manifested all over the world‚ the case of Africa is very dilapidating to say
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PHILIPPINES UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Unemployment Rate in Philippines increased to 7.50 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from 7.10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Unemployment Rate in Philippines is reported by the The National Statistics Office (NSO). Philippines Unemployment Rate averaged 9.09 Percent from 1994 until 2013‚ reaching an all time high of 13.90 Percent in March of 2002 and a record low of 6.30 Percent in September of 2007. In Philippines‚ the unemployment rate measures the number
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Bartolotta Ms. Decap English 10 January 17 2014 Unemployment Proposal Unemployment rates are skyrocketing. According to the Internet‚ 12% of the U.S. population is unemployed. Unemployment not only effects the lives of the unemployed‚ but their families and communities too. The stress of unemployment can lead to declines in individual and family well-being and could potentially effect the outcomes of their children. Widespread unemployment in neighborhoods reduces resources‚ which may result
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Unemployment in Nigeria is one of the critical and major problem the country faces in its present years. This has actually contributed to numbers of societal malaises among Nigerians and can be traced to the malfeasances of all the governments that have been ruling Nigeria since independence. BY Perhaps‚ this is also due to the inferiority complex nature of a black man to the superiority of others. This problem has gone far worse than minds could in imagine putting lots of people under condition
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Macroeconomics Assignment: Unemployment Unemployment Data for August of 2013 Employment (rose/fell/remained unchanged)‚ and the unemployment rate edged (up/down/stayed unchanged) to (?) percent in the last month. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 169‚000 in August‚ and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.3 percent‚ the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in retail trade and health care but declined in information. The jobless rate had
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fade‚ and many of them have dropped out of the workforce entirely‚ discouraged by their inability to find work. That‚ in turn‚ has weakened the total potential of the U.S. economy. This is an extremely worrisome situation. It means that long-term unemployment isn’tjust a temporary ailment that will heal itself as the economy keeps rebounding. It has left permanent scars. The U.S. economy will never be as productive as it could have been had we figured out how to get people back to work more quickly
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Unemployment means being out of job or a situation where the individual is willing to work but has none. It either means that they are over qualified for the given work or it is not suited for them. People are unemployed because of insufficient demand of work. Unemployment is a huge challenge facing Philippines. Since that this is one of the countries that have high unemployment rates‚ it slows the growth of the country. Parkin et al‚ states that “To be counted as unemployed‚ a person must be available
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Unemployment in Saudi Arabia‚ according to the latest official figures‚ was 5.5 percent of the total Saudi labor force (15 years and older) in 2012. This means there are at least 300‚000 unemployed people in the Kingdom. The decree on the short-run will Couse some sort of difficulties specially on the small and medium firms‚ but on the long-run the decree will affect on the market positively. Therefore we recommend the following: Weather Implement the decree gradually (100 and then 200
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BUS640 Prof Michael Blagg September 19‚ 2011 Executive Summary The down turn of the economy has stirred up some issues that most people were not prepared to deal with. The unemployment rate is at a petrifying rate and the worst part is that it is even worse than it looks. There are many factors in addition to the unemployment rate alone that are going to prolong the recovery of the job market. In this paper‚ “underemployment” is defined and explained in terms of rates. Reasons why people are underemployed
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