Causes of youth unemployment
- Technological progress and increased use of capital intensive technology
- lack of appropriate skills
- seasonal changes especially in agriculture
- poor attitude towards work
- rapid population growth compared to job creation
- rural-urban migration cause open-urban unemployment
- discrimination in labour based on age, sex etc.
- structural adjustment programs e.g. retrenchment
- limited co-operant factors e.g. capital
- physical and mental hand cap
- political instability
- ignorance of job opportunities
- changing jobs causing frictional unemployment
- immobility of labour
- poor manpower planning
CATEGORIES Economics
TAGS Dr. Bbosa Science
