T he word employment and unemployment has different meaning. But let’s
first look into employment. Employment means the state of being
employedhaving a job OR Employment is the act of giving someone a job.
In my own point of view, employment is the occupation for which you are
paid. The entire individual that is up to the age of work, both skilled
and unskilled should not be unemployment. Now let’s look at the word
Unemployment Oxford dictionary defined Unemployment as the state of not
having a job. The rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of
economy and is also a serious social evil. In my own point of view, I
will say that unemployment is an economic condition marked by the fact
that individuals seeking for jobs remain not hired. The number of
proportion of unemployment is speedily increasing. Unemployment is
expressed as a percentage of the total available work force. The level
of unemployment varies with economic conditions and other circumstances
and it is affecting our country and our youths.
THE POTENTIAL NEEDS TO BE EMPLOYED The population of every economy is
divided into two categories. The economically active and the
economically inactive. The economically active population (labor can
equally used as work) labor can be skilled or unskilled. Here the
designation is to separate the tasks that require some special training
and the aptitude acquired in the process. One needs to be a carpenter to
be able to produce furniture. In the same way, to build a proper modern
house needs the skill of a building engineer. On the contrary, there is
little or no special training required in digging a hole with a hoe or a
shovel. Conventionally, such labor is termed unskilled because in a
very general way, it is open to most people that have the physical
strength and the readiness to exert it in the fulfillment of such task.
Working population refers to the population that is willing and able to
work, including those actively engaged in the production of goods and
services (employed). And those who are unemployed refer to people who
are willing and also capable of working but are unable to find suitable
paid employment. So the people of this statue have the necessary needs
to be employed. The next category, the economically inactive population
refers to people who are neither working nor looking for jobs. Examples
includes: housewives, fulltime students and invalid, those below the
legal age of work, old and retired person.
THE CRISES THAT CREATS MORE UNEPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA. I regret some very
recent events which are novelties in our country but which are certainly
condemnable, especially the advent of hitherto unknown suicide bombing.
It is mindless violence that does not bring any body any good. Some
industries, factories, schools etc, have being destroyed. This nasty
event have render most of Nigerians homeless and jobless. There are some
more other crises that create unemployment which have been a bother to
Nigerian government but this issue can not be disclosed here. Check our
next up coming article.
THE EFFECT OF UNEPLOYMENT IN NIGERIAN YOUTHS Nigeria is the most popular
country in Africa with a population of 154,729,000 citizens. Our
nominal GDP is $207.116 billion and we have a nominal per capita income
of $1, 4011. Nigeria also has the second largest economy in Africa. If I
may ask, is this country not blessed? Yet, it is still plagued by
youth’s unemployment which had been one of our major problems in recent
years. Both government and the private sector had discussed this issue
at forums and conferences but have not found a solution to it. Its
continued existence had been linked to lack of power supply and
financial empowerment for youth. Youth unemployment in Nigeria is mostly
referred to as graduate unemployment and this means that only the
skilled youth are seen as unemployed while the unskilled youths are not
given consideration. Unemployment causes a lot of bad effects in human
lives. The effect of unemployment can lead someone to become a traitor
in hisher own country. Indeed human work is a noble and enduring
enterprise that cuts across humans of all class, culture and climate.
Without work civilization will be nonexistence, development of people
and nation would have been meaningless. The old adage holds which says
that “man works to live.” Infact, it is really difficult if not
impossible to image a world without human work, without the material
works of man, his technology, systems of commerce and industries, his
cultural cum socio-economic institutions, systems of belief and human
organizations. For the betterment of this country, Nigeria government
should build more factories or create more job opportunities for our
vibrant young men and women of virtue. By ANGEL PHILOMENA.
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