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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UNEMPLOYMENT ANALYSIS IN KENYA Dawn Mwalo Supervisor: assistant Fastova N.I. Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics (Lenina street 14‚ department of Economic Cybernetic‚ Kharkov 61166‚ Ukraine‚ (057)70-21-490) E-mail: elizabeth_mwalo@yahoo.com The given work is devoted to one of the most important problems of unemployment in many nations’ economies. The main goals of this work are to make analysis of the tendency of trend of the unemployment rate
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Thesis: “People are Unemployed because they want to be”‚ should not be used as a rationale for the overall level of unemployment currently being experienced. Presented by: Kevin Henry Northern Caribbean University College of Business and Hospitality Management Department of Professional and Continuing Education Presented in partial fulfillment of the course ENGL120: Freshman Composition 2 Presented to: Ozette Waugh-Fagan (Mrs.) Date: November 18‚ 2010 In a country characterized
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is able and willing to work yet is unable to find a job. Unemployment rate is the number of people officially unemployed divided by the labor force. Official unemployment measures those over the age of 16 who are able for employment‚ but are unable to obtain a job. The labor force is the number of people over the age of 16 who are either employed or unemployed. In year 2005‚ unemployment rate in Malaysia (3.0%) higher than unemployment rate in Cambodia (2.5%). Malaysia is a heaven for job seekers
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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taking forever to do so‚ made monumental leaps with regards to civil rights when in the early 1990s when the government repealed Apartheid legislation and had its first universal elections held in 1994.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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Unemployment – Causes I am going to offer my theory as to the real cause of unemployment‚ for every cause there is an effect. The process of cause and effect. It’s hard to live a normal healthy life without a job and money. There are many reasons why people are unemployed‚ but in turn this state of unemployment can cause one to experience financial‚ emotional‚ and personal problems. The most common causes of unemployment are getting fired and laid off for specific reasons
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KATILI UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI WELFARE ECONOMICS PROFESSOR KAMAU Abstract Unemployment can be defined as a state where by people are unable to contribute to the economic growth due to lack of jobs. These people must however be qualified and constantly looking for a job without any success. They therefore fail to secure an opportunity that can enable them to earn their living. Because of unemployment‚ people are unable to contribute to the economic growth‚ not because they are weak‚ but
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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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Introduction Unemployment is a huge challenge facing South Africa. There are many people who are looking for jobs but cannot find them mostly because of the slow economic growth rate in the country. South Africa faces structural unemployment where people loose their jobs due to introduction of new technology or relocation of the company‚ these economic disruptions have resulted in high crime rates‚ low production and income as well as lost human capital. The NDP has been put in place to solve the
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Inflation vs. Unemployment Inflation and unemployment are two key elements when evaluating the economic well-being of a nation‚ and their relationship has been debated by economists for decades. Inflation refers to an increase in overall level of prices within an economy; it means you have to pay more money to get the same amount of goods or services as you acquired before and the money becomes devalued. For example 10 dollars seventy years ago had the same buying power that 134 dollars have today
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