5 Reasons Why Graduates are Unemployed ------------------------------------------------- April 17th‚ 2008 | Featured Articles‚ by Zul http://skorcareer.com.my/blog/malaysia-unemployment-issue-why-fresh-graduates-are-unemployed/2008/04/17/ The increasing unemployment rate among the graduates in Malaysia is a worrying trend. For many years‚ the issue cropped up again and again‚ made the news headlines‚ and even hit the parliament. The days have passed when a degree scroll can become your automatic
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South African Unemployment The Republic of South Africa‚ while certainly taking forever to do so‚ made monumental leaps with regards to civil rights when in the early 1990s when the government repealed Apartheid legislation and had its first universal elections held in 1994. A quick look at GDP numbers and you would find that South Africa has the largest economy in Africa‚ and so without delving deep into it one might think that the economy and country have been prospering post Apartheid. After
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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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COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY TOPIC: The conflict perspective views society less as a cohesive system and more as an arena of conflict and power struggles. Compare and contrast the main tenets of the functionalist and conflict perspectives. ANSWER: SECTION A Functionalists view society as a system of Social structures or subsystems working interdependently. In order for society to function‚ all parts of the whole must have a general consensus. Similarly‚ conflict theorists operate on
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Sociology is the study of people and society. It provides the people who study it with the knowledge to understand different social groups‚ and the roles of the social activities that take place within them. This knowledge allows people to see past the way in which we commonly understand our world‚ and see things in a more objective manner‚ making it easier to explain society in an unbiased way (Holmes‚ Hughes & Julian 2003:2). Different theories‚ viewpoints and social facts help us to achieve this
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Explain how and why the Functional Perspective is the legitimating rationale (explanation or justification) for a Capitalist economy‚ and give examples of this justification through race‚ religion‚ class‚ gender‚ and educational level. Then‚ critique the Functionalist ideology from the Conflict Perspective and describe how the stratification system produces deviants (not criminals‚ but rather those who fall outside the expectations in actions‚ thoughts‚ appearance‚ credit-score‚ etc) and the result
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Americans‚ or most people will see their services‚ safety nets‚ public investments in everything from sewers and infrastructure overall to education‚ all of that will be cut” (www.pbs.org). In the upcoming years this can become a hardship because unemployment
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............................................................................................................... 8 1 Student ID#00001439 Introduction Advanced Economics BUZE600‚ CW1 The analysis of the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment is necessary in order to evaluate whether minimum wages are effective policy tool for bettering economic state of individuals at the bottom of the income distribution – which is the fundamental objective of minimum wage policy. Topicality and importance
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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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is this country not blessed? Yet‚ it is still plagued by youth unemployment which had been one of our major problems in recent years. Both government and the private sector had discussed this issue at forums and conferences but have not found a solution to it. Its continued existence had been linked to lack of power supply and financial empowerment for youths. Youth unemployment in Nigeria is mostly referred to as graduate unemployment and this means that only the skilled youths are seen as unemployed
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