The causes and consequences of youth unemployment in Australia has been of particular concern within both government and private sectors for many years. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)‚ 10.9% of the total 15-24 age population was unemployed in September‚ 1995. This figure climbed to 15.3% in September‚ 2003. This evidence gives cause to the growing concern surrounding the increase in youth unemployment. For sizeable numbers of youth‚ its not going to get any easier to find
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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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Youth unemployment The youth unemployment problem has become a major problem in our country. The youth represents more than half of the total population of Bhutan and is considered as a major workforce. The youth are considered as the most energetic class of people who can make either constructive or destructive contribution to the society. If they are not monitored well and remained unemployed‚ both social and economic problems are inevitable. The need is felt to address the social and economic
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basically the issue of youth unemployment within the overall context of the Lebanese labor market conditions. It has proposed an in-depth analysis of the conditions prevailing in the Lebanese labor market‚ and associates the impact of the Lebanese civil strife that raged the country in 1975‚ on the socio-economic structure of the country‚ affecting mostly the Lebanese economy. The study was divided into four sections: 1. An overview of the Lebanese labor market; 2. The youth labor market and the
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Canadian Youth Unemployment Introduction Youth unemployment‚ which encompasses individuals in the age range of 15 to 24‚ is the demographic that is the most likely to be unemployed. This can often be attributed to the difficult time youth may have transitioning from school to work‚ especially for those who have neither experience nor education to secure a job in the current labor market. The purpose of this report is to discuss the current youth unemployment
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Introduction In the modern society of today unemployment is a very serious and complex matter to take into consideration. Investopedia online dictionary (2013) defines unemployment as follow: Unemployment occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy. The most frequently cited measure of unemployment is the unemployment rate. This is the number of unemployed persons divided by the number
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Youth Unemployment Amar Chamas Charbel Makhlouf Pamela Atallah Mohamad Fattouh Nazih Chbeir PSPA 202 American University of Beirut Question 1- What is the problem? When we refer to youth adults we mean those individuals who are between 20 and 40 years. Youth Unemployment can be defined as individuals who are raging between 20 to 40 years‚ are not being working for a period of time‚ and are seeking to find job. “More than 200 million people are globally unemployed today‚ with the unemployment
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disproportionately affected by unemployment‚ underemployment‚ vulnerable employment and working poverty. Even during periods of economic growth‚ many economies have been unable to absorb large youth populations into the labour market. In recent years‚ however‚ the global financial and economic crisis has further hit young people particularly hard in the developed world. The need to provide more and better jobs for young people exists across countries. However‚ youth employment challenges tend to differ
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Why is youth unemployment so high? May 8th 2013‚ 23:50 by J.F. | NEW YORK YOUTH unemployment is blighting a whole generation of youngsters. The International Labour Organisation estimates there are 75m 15-to-24-year-olds looking for work across the globe. But this figure excludes a large number of youngsters who do not participate in the labour market at all. Among the 34 members of the OECD‚ a club of rich nations‚ it is estimated there are 26m youths not in education‚ employment or training
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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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