1. INTRODUCTION
The consultancy Africa Intelligence article by Motlalepule MMesi (28/05/2015), reports that jobless youth is well-defined as those capable to work and looking for occupation, but not capable to secure an occupation. Although youths are understandably less economically active in the traditional sense at the beginning of their worthiness to enter the employment pool. Moreover, according to the standard United Nations definition, “youth” consist of young people aged from 15 to 24 years inclusive (United Nations, 1992). In practice, the in use meaning of youth or young individuals differs widely from nation to nation, reliant on cultural, institutional and political elements, (Higgins, 2009:9).
2. CAUSES OF YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
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Although this straightforward perception has been confirmed by numerous studies, (Bertola, Francine and Kahn, 2007:167 & Perugini and Singoreli, 2010: 265), there is no agreement as to the significance of youth cohort size in determining youth joblessness. Certainly, while some studies find aggregate demand elements to be more vital than demographic ones (Higgins, 2003, 2012); others affirm that the presence of the former the size of the youth has no impact.
Levin (2011:237) further clarifies that in terms of education and Training the growth in youth joblessness is the view that the quality of youth work pool has weakened in recent years by virtue of a drop in education and training. According to this clarification, youth are progressively lacking in the abilities that are essential for productive work
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The push factor comprises of the pressure occurring from man-land ratio in the rural parts and existence of serious underemployment rising from the seasonal cycle of the shortage of infrastructural facilities, which makes the rural life unpleasant. Youths move to urban parts with the possibility of securing worthwhile work in the businesses. In addition to this theory, Uddin (1987:20) highlights that there is the attentiveness of social amenities in urban Centre’s. This meant that the rural parts are disregarded in the allocation of social and economic
Looking for mostly “unskilled workers who are willing to accept low pay,” these big corporations favor teenagers the most “because their youthful inexperience makes them easier to control”
In order to prevent individuals from committing crimes its best to keep these individuals preoccupied with important things. For example, from my own personal experience I joined the wrestling team to keep me busy and to help keep me in shape. But it also taught me self discipline and determination. In addition it saved me from a bad path I was heading to. If the city provided funds for kids to join school groups and provided money for programs, more kids would be off the streets and doing something productive.
That is almost exactly the decline in the teenage labor-force participation rate” (Thompson 366). There is a clear contrast in the teenage labor-force participation rate–and the high-school
Summer jobs are astonishing for a teenager. They are given multiple opportunities to learn many life lessons. But due to education activities and employers, their chances have been lowered down to getting a job. According to the passage ´Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs - why? ´ written by Derek Thomas, he claims that ¨Education is to blame, rather than indolence.
A report was done by the Research Center of Immigration Studies according to the report the RCOI found a correlation between the decline in American youth (16-24 years of age) employment and a significant increase in the amount of immigrant employment over the last decade. This means Illegal immigrants are taking jobs and there are no jobs left for the youth to take. The reason for this is the youth must then take wages lower than the immigrants to get the jobs which is little to none. Since most job immigrants take are unskilled, low end jobs these usually do not require a lot of experience. An example, usually jobs that don’t require a high school education, now guess who is an unskilled and doesn’t not have a high school diploma the youth of America.
Ben Sasse’s Op-Ed (EPL) Today, youth unemployment during the summer is an issue that is very common in the United States. Teens no longer have to face drastic amounts of hard, exhausting manual labor. Common factors that interfere with a child’s work and limit their experiences consist of parenting time, innovations in technology/machinery, and the media.
The article,”Teenagers’ Work Can Have Downsides” written by Jerald G. Bachman, discusses many advantages and disadvantages of working as a teenager. Although, Bachman has good reasonings for both sides, teenagers should be able work. There are good outcomes that come from teenagers having a job, they can learn many useful skills that they can use in the future. They could be saving up money to help pay for college. Having a job can help students become more responsible.
Hurley & Treacy (1993) would argue that the focus should be on consciousness raising and collective action, in an effort to bring about societal change. By implementing youth work that is focused on meeting Government priorities and prescribed outcomes, the underpinning principles of youth work (autonomy, empowerment, and a therapeutic relationship) are being forgotten (Scanlon 2011; Youth Work Act
Youth without shelter organization states, the City of Toronto have the largest homeless population in Canada. According to youth without shelter organization, 28% of homeless people in Toronto are youth. Therefore, training young workers is a solution that can be implement in order
In the persuasive article “Why Teens Are Getting Shut Out of the Workforce”, Andrew Soergel argues that teens are not holding a job because the elders are not moving up and the teens college enrollment rate is very high. A research shows that there is nearly 40 percent decline in the employment rate among 16-19 years old over the last 12 years. This is the lowest rate since World War II. There must be some reasons that makes the teens employment rate extremely low. A report also noted that people who work at a young age are more likely to earn more money.
Child Labor Child labor, according to International Labor Organization, is an employment of children whose work deprives them of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. However, legislators in developing nations have an alternate definition of child labor. They get a kick out of the chance to characterize child labor as work that hinders the improvement and prosperity of children. Economists lean toward a less subjective definition while in economists view, child labor as the economic activities in which children take an interest. This definition incorporates subjugation and prostitution, however it stretches out to the sorts of activities that children consistently take part
Starting in 1880, the evils of child labor were increasing fast. Children weren’t just working on their family’s farm; they were slaving in mills, sweatshops, and factories. Children were not only losing a chance at an education, but they were becoming ill, injured, and some were even being killed because of the dangerous working conditions they were slaving in. The dangers of children in the workforce are well-known, and many U.S. people disagree with the fact that children, most younger than eight, are able to work in such evil conditions. “That the evil exists; that certainly hundreds of thousands and more, probably over one million, children are even now either being killed or utterly destroyed for that citizenship on which this free
Furthermore, this analysis looks at informal employment as to having of lack of job security, access to social benefits and social protection (Pillay,
Many youth are unemployed because they have just come from high school and they do not have enough work experience to get a job. Adults are more likely to be unemployed because of physical and mental health challenges. Adults also tend to be unemployed because of cyclical, structural and frictional unemployment. Unemployment also goes into hand with homelessness and panhandling, because there is not enough jobs people are ending up homeless and looking for other ways to get money. Why are youth more likely to be unemployed than adults, and is unemployment among youth becoming a social problem?
The education system produces skills that are not valued by employers, while raising the expectations of those who acquire them. Consequently, the unemployed do not take up existing job vacancies, and employers are unwilling to hire available candidates (Njonjo, 2010). The mismatch is more marked for school leavers and graduates who have just finished school, partly providing an explanation for the high unemployment rate among youth and new entrants into the job market. The suggested remedy is to reform the education system and increase focus on technical education and vocational training, matching them to the needs of the job market (Coenjaerts et al. 2009).