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Unemployment In The Caribbean

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The purpose of the study is to evaluate the extent of unemployment and the distress it may cause on hospitality graduates. The literature will review sub-topics that will assist the researchers with answering the research questions which includes: What are the impacts of unemployment on hospitality graduates? What are the distresses that hospitality graduates face as a result of unemployment? How the distress faced impact the graduates? The sub-topics of that will be discussed in the literature will include causes of unemployment, consequences of employment, the distress that is faced by graduates as a result of unemployment and unemployment in the Caribbean.
Causes of unemployment
Youth unemployment is a global phenomenon affecting 73 million …show more content…

Some consequences of unemployment among graduates are lack of financial income or low-wage income from graduates having to take jobs that require minimal use of their trained skills which can lead to financial poverty, which can cause psychological distress for the individual and their family of not being able to provide for the basic needs. Risky sexual behavior tends to be associated with people being unemployed for a prolong period of time, it is reported that the Caribbean is one of the largest region that has sexually active youths in the world without the use of contraception or condoms which can lead to unplanned pregnancies, higher rate of contraction of sexual transmitted diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus which is a high rate in the Caribbean including Haiti, the Bahamas and Guyana (World Bank …show more content…

With limited available of employment graduates are forced to seek employment outside of their country thus creating a problem of brain drain which,LaPorte (2005) refers to as the migration of health personnel in search of the better standard of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in different places worldwide. This movement of graduates to other countries for a better opportunities could benefit the individual and their family in many ways, but it leaves a negative impact on their home country economy in few ways which includes, their home country is now losing not only the investment of educating but also the revenue from taxes that can is used to fund health care among others and it creates a gap in the trained knowledge and skilled of professions needed to service the general population. For example, healthcare expenditure in India is 3 percent of GDP compared to 13 percent of GDP in the USA and the ratio of doctor to patients in India is 1:2083 compared to the USA where the ratio is

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