Causes of youth unemployment in developing countries
- Technological progress and increased use of capital intensive methods
- Changes in seasons especially in agriculture/changes in climatic conditions
- Unfavourable changes in tastes/limited
- Markets/fall in demand/falling prices.
- Poor land tenure system
- Poor education system/inappropriate education limited skills
- · Rural-urban migration causing open urban unemployment
- Rapid population growth rates compared to job creation.
- Discrimination in the labour market based on sex, age etc.
- Poor attitudes towards work/laziness
- Structural adjustment Programs e.g. Retrench merit, privatization
- Limited co-operant factors e.g. capital, land etc.
- Physical d mental incapacitation causing residual unemployment
- Ignorance of job opportunities
- Political instability
- Changing jobs, causing frictional/casual unemployment
- Poor manpower planning causing excess labour supply in some sectors
- Immobility of labour occupationally or geographically
CATEGORIES Economics
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