Causes Of Unemployment

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The purpose of the study is to evaluate the extent of unemployment and the distress it may cause on hospitality graduates. The literature will review sub-topics that will assist the researchers with answering the research questions which includes: What are the impacts of unemployment on hospitality graduates? What are the distresses that hospitality graduates face as a result of unemployment? How the distress faced impact the graduates? The sub-topics of that will be discussed in the literature will include causes of unemployment, consequences of employment, the distressed that is faced by graduates as a result of unemployment and unemployment in the Caribbean. Causes of unemployment Youth unemployment is a global phenomenon affecting 73 million…show more content…
He also stated that turnover in nursing rarely occurs, especially in public health care services that require public service examinations for hiring, and the creation of jobs depends on deployment of new health care services, which does not occur often. Although graduates posses the academic knowledge in gaining unemployment they might lack the human capital which is defined in Business Dictionary as “the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community” which is not only educational level but also lack of work experience Parra-Tornado (2014) cited that “the lack of work experience is a major inconvenient factor for hiring since employer’s value socio-emotional and technical skills the most” it shows a mismatch of supply and demand of skills which required as a qualification for most jobs. For example, Edin and Gustavsson (2008) found that persons who spent a year out of their field are associated with a reduction in their skills by 5 percent related to those who are…show more content…
Some consequences of unemployment among graduates are lack of financial income or low-wage income from graduates having to take jobs that requires minimal use of their trained skills which can lead to financial poverty, which can cause psychological distress for the individual and their family of not being able to provide for the basic needs. Risky sexual behavior tends to be associated with person being unemployed for a prolong period of time, it is reported that the Caribbean is one of the largest region that has sexually active youths in the world without the use of contraception or condoms which can lead to unplanned pregnancies, higher rate of contraction of sexual transmitted diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus which is a high rate in the Caribbean including Haiti, the Bahamas and Guyana (World Bank
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