Factors Determing Unemployment Among Unemiployed Youths
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2012
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The key strategy for achieving inclusive grov\/th in the Eleventh Plan has been
generation of productive and gainful employment, \A/ith decent \A/orking conditions, on
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on a current daily status (CDS) basis during 1999-2000 to 2004-05 had accelerated
significantly as compared to the grov\yth witnessed during 1993-94 to 1999-2000. During 1999-2000 to 2004-05, about 47 million work opportunities were created
compared to only 24 million in the period between 1993-94 an d 1999-2000 and
employment growth accelerated from 1.25 per cent per annum to 2.62 per cent per
annum. However, since the labour force grew at a faster rate of 2.84 per cent than the
workforce, unemployment also rose. The incidence of unemployment on CDS basis
increased from 7.31 per cent in 1999i2000 to 8.28 per cpnt in 2004-05. A comparative
study of different estimates of unemployment during 2007-08 indicates that the CDS
estimate of unemployment rate being the broadest is the highest. The higher
unemployment .mtes according to the CDS approach vis-a-vis weekly and usual status
approaches indicate a high degree of intermittent unemployment.
In this backdrop, an attempt was made to analyse the determinants of unemployment
among educated unemployed youths. In Coimbatore district, sickness of the industries
was one of the main causes for unemployment. There was grater gap between the
growing of job opportunities and the labour force. The unemployed youths opined
that there was a need to create additional job opportunities to match with the
growing labour force. The common factor determining unemployment level in all the
educational level was the age of the respondent. The relationship between the
duration of unemployment and the age of the respondent was observed to be positive
which shows that the age of the respondent was higher, higher would be the
duration of unemployment and vice versa. It implied that the unemployment problem
was not solved for a long period of time. At higher educational level, the sex of the
respondent and family income added with the age of the respondent to determine
duration of unemployment. In the pooled analysis educational status of the
respondents was also observed to be significant factor determining duration of
unemployment.