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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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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18605 YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY ILO SUB-REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE CARIBBEAN QUESTIONNAIRE SAINT LUCIA GOVERNMENT S TATISTICS DEPARTMENT Visit Number 1 Interviewer Name: Interview date (day/month) Response (reason)........... Moved No Response Person Number / Interview Time: Call back (date/time)................ Not found Other‚ Specify............. Visit Number 2 Interviewer Name: Interview date (day/month) Response (reason)........... Moved No Response Interviewer Number
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decrease the inflation and increase the growth of GDP by almost 30% in four years. But by 1999 the economy suffered the worst decline since 1930’s and Argentina entered the worst economic crisis in its history. The GDP decreased by almost 20%‚ unemployment drew significantly that caused many public protests and riots in the country. By 2002 the growth of GDP slowly returned and the new government taking different measurements to get the economy back on track. The current policies‚ such as restrictions
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The structural unemployment in the Bahamas Tourism and banking which are the Bahamas’ primary and secondary industries are owned by foreign sectors‚ the gross domestic product is at $3065130000 and total household income is at $1793372500. The Bahamas suffers from Dualism which is the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements‚ often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body)‚ or good and evil. There should be a dualism by types of ownership whether a foreign sector or Bahamian
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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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capita expenditure 2 Trends in money metric poverty 3 Income distribution 4 Sources of household income 5 Distribution of household expenditures 4. Employment 1 Labour force participation 2 Unemployment and underemployment 3 Sectoral distribution 4 Real Wages 5 Dependency ratio 5. Nutrition 5. Education 1 Adult literacy rate 2 Primary school gross enrolment rates 3 Secondary school gross
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