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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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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disparities in the quality of education between rural and urban India (aka Bharat and India) have finally come true. Labour Ministry data indicates that higher education and degrees are not helping rural job aspirants to get their coveted jobs. Not only unemployment among rural graduates and post-graduates is higher‚ but also they lack basic skill-sets to fill the demands of market economy. The dangerous trend‚ if anything‚ may offset the gains by India at the literacy front. While the country has added more
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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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COSTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT Some people believe that recessions are neither good nor bad but simply part of the natural survival of the fittest in the business world. Actually‚ it is not true. In The Costs of Unemployment‚ the authors tell us both the good and bad influences of recessions. Recessions will cause unemployment because of the loss of output and GNP. Some people may argue that unemployment is ¡°a part of the functioning of the economy¡±. They are partly right‚ for the unemployment is inevitable
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Cause and Effect of Unemployment How is unemployment affecting the world? The recession‚ the failing economy‚ and the government losing money are things that cause unemployment. There is a strange unwillingness by both liberal and conservative commentators whom assess blame for the loss of well-paying American jobs. The causes are not only the recession and the collapse of the housing market‚ but bad decisions by the government and businesses that need to be addressed. Since 2000‚ the United States
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UNEMPLOYMENT in the Bahamas is down by one per cent‚ according to government statistics. The Department of Statistics released the results of its Labour Force and Household Income Survey yesterday‚ conducted in May‚ which revealed a slight decrease in the number of unemployed persons‚ a decline of less than 1 per cent in the unemployment rate which now stands at 13.7 per cent. However‚ the report explained the two major factors contributing to the decline in the unemployment rate were persons
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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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Unemployment Problem in Bangladesh Bangladesh is a poor country. The country has many problems. Unemployment is one of the major problems on Bangladesh. Unemployment means to remain without work. This problem hampers our all round development. Many causes work behind unemployment. Ours is an agriculture country. People cannot work all the year round. In agriculture there is some seasonal work. After the seasonal work people become workless. As a result they become unemployed. We have a traditional
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Mudharabah : Islamic Solution to Unemployment Crisis 1 Islamic Solution to the Unemployment Crisis Ezry Fahmy Bin Eddy Yusof International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) Economics in the Qur’an and the Sunnah Mudharabah : Islamic Solution to Unemployment Crisis 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION The whole world is now in the grip of a financial crisis which is far more serious than any experienced since the Great Depression. It has taken more than $3 trillion of bailout and liquidity
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