Is Youth Unemployment Really the Major Worry?

Artner, Annamária

doi:10.1080/0965156x.2013.863998

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“…This is not peculiar to Nigeria alone but also to other developing countries of the world where growth and development are still tied with using crude and conservative means devoid of technology. The most worrisome thing about the unemployment is not the burden it poses to the society at the moment but the threats to the future which will be faced with frustrated people who may be feeling alienated or disenfranchised from being integrated to the mainstream society (Annamaria, 2013). Nwagwu (2014) categorized the unemployed as members of the economically active population who are without work but available for and seeking work, including people who have lost their jobs or who have voluntarily left work while Shadare and Elegbede (2012) on their own parts described unemployment as those who are members of labor force that can work or perceived to be able to work but unable to find job and also those who have lost their jobs and seeking reentry.…”

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Examining the willingness of youths to participate in agriculture to halt the rising rate of unemployment in South Western Nigeria

Fawole¹,

Özkan

2019

JES

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the willingness of unemployed graduates to participate in agriculture with a view to showcase the potentials in Nigerian agriculture especially in the area of employment generation for the youths. Design/methodology/approach The study made use of primary data collected with the aid of structured questionnaires from 180 respondents from the three states of Ondo; Oyo and Osun states are the representative states from the entire South West. The binary logistic regression model was used to identify those factors that influence the willingness of the respondents who were graduates of various disciplines to participate in agriculture. Findings The findings of the study showed that the majority of the respondents interviewed representing 62.8 percent were unemployed with the majority of the respondents (68.3 percent) willing to participate in agriculture given the needed and required supports such as conducive environment by the stakeholders particularly the government. Educational status, marital status, gender, possession of agricultural training and employment status of respondents significantly influenced their willingness to participate in agriculture. Research limitations/implications The greatest limitation of this study is its sample size which is considerably small but considering the peculiarity in the challenges faced by the entire population; this limitation has been overcome, thus, making its findings valid for policy purposes. However, recommendations for further studies that would comprise the entire geopolitical zones of the country to pave way for comparative analysis were made. Originality/value The study is originally carried out by conducting a survey to collect the data and is coming to fill the existing gap in the literature in terms of potentials embedded in Nigerian agriculture to assist the government in providing employment opportunities for teeming youths.

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Examining the willingness of youths to participate in agriculture to halt the rising rate of unemployment in South Western Nigeria

Fawole¹,

Özkan

2019

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“…Many researchers are devoted to the youth unemployment issues around the world. "The problem seems fierce not only because jobless youth is expensive for the society -EUR 153 billion or 1.2% of the GDP in the EU in 2011but also because it affects the future of it" (Artner 2013;Bilevičienė, Bilevičiūtė 2015). The youngest generation should be motivated and respect the country that provides them job in terms of being fear further on paying taxes that is an important part of the economy.…”

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Peculiarities of Young Specialists on Labour Market: Case of Latvia

Stariņeca¹,

Voronchuk²

2015

JESI

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The youth unemployment issue is topical for European countries. The authors would like to outline what kind of risks Latvia can meet in different sectors of economy focusing on the public sector. Authors summaries published experts reflections on the situation on Latvian labour market, analyse statistical data, use Latvian economically active youth (high schools students and young specialist with higher education aged from 18 until 24). The hypothesis is Latvian young specialists are mostly attracted by service private sector organisations as employers rather than the public sector organisations.

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“…Among the reasons of youth unemployment are a country's poor macroeconomic performance and the absence of the right skills and attitudes within the young generation and the major onesociety's failure to create enough jobs for young people. "A more demand-oriented strategy based on social partnership by including workers' and employers' organisations" could help to solve the issue (O'Higgins, 2001;Artner, 2013). "The Manpower Group (2012) suggests promoting economic growth, entrepreneurship development and education among other things" (Artner, 2013).…”

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“…"A more demand-oriented strategy based on social partnership by including workers' and employers' organisations" could help to solve the issue (O'Higgins, 2001;Artner, 2013). "The Manpower Group (2012) suggests promoting economic growth, entrepreneurship development and education among other things" (Artner, 2013).…”

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Supply, Demand, Forecast of Latvian Labour Market and Tools for Its Development

Stariņeca

Voronchuk²

2015

EurInsStud

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Many factors influence situation on Latvian labour market. Employment is one of the core subject to explorer observing changes of labour market supply, demand and forecasts. Focusing on organisational problems concerning labour issues the microenvironment of the organisations ought to be study. The authors would like to compare Latvian labour market forecasts and the real situation for the period starting from the economic crises year 2009 in Latvia to 2015. Reaching the objective of the study additionally, the data on labour market structure is observed focusing on young participants of the employment process (new enterprises and young employees, job seekers). Describing the forecasts fulfilment and current situation on the labour market in Latvia, some risks were defined connected with future employment situation in Latvia. In addition, some tools of labour market development implemented in Latvia were evaluated defining their advantages and disadvantages. The main assessed tools are lifelong education, youth guarantee, new enterprises support programs. They are implemented along the European Commission initiative and European Union funds. This research has an exploratory and descriptive design. The authors develop tentative hypotheses for the future researches. The primary methods used are literature review on employability and labour market topics; statistical data interpretation, statistical data comparison, synthesis, contextual analysis (SWOT). The forecasts about Latvian Labour market done by Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia mainly were wrong. The last tendencies shows that there is a demand for specialists in such areas as trade, agriculture, construction and building, education. The demand of labour for this field is in the top ten rating. However, the forecast was correct about construction field; the demand of the specialists of this field has been decreasing slowly for the last five years. In addition, demand for the specialists of transportation, logistics field is high as it was forecasted as well as demand of medical specialists. The general tendencies of the employment on Labour market are positive. The unemployment rate has been deceased for last five years and is about 10% during last two years. However, youth unemployment rates decrease does not show positive results as it is still high and is about 20 % during last two years. The main risk that can be urgent for the next five years are: economically inactive citizens, higher education institutions non-cooperation with Latvian government, lack of specialists in engineering fields, medicine, Information Technologies, and some other, surplus of humanitarian and social sciences specialists, young specialist emigration, economy dependence on small, medium and microenterprises business. The authors propose public administration work more with their stakeholders especially scientists and younger representatives of the society (pupils). Evaluating unemployment data general and youth some factors needs to be taken in to account before t...

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Is Youth Unemployment Really the Major Worry?

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Examining the willingness of youths to participate in agriculture to halt the rising rate of unemployment in South Western Nigeria

Examining the willingness of youths to participate in agriculture to halt the rising rate of unemployment in South Western Nigeria

Peculiarities of Young Specialists on Labour Market: Case of Latvia

Supply, Demand, Forecast of Latvian Labour Market and Tools for Its Development

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