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Published on: Jan 22, 2005

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Unemployment is a serious concern for the people of Bangladesh, especially the youth. People know quite well enough that there are too few jobs for far too many people. Almost 50,000 youth complete university degrees or diploma courses each year across the country and as the number of the people being involved into education is increasing; accordingly the number of graduates each year is also increasing. The number may reach up to 100,000 a year within the next 7 years as a much greater number of children have been injected into the education stream in the last decade. However, it is not possible to create as many job openings for the youth. In fact, there are a far greater number who complete high-school but do not even go into the universities or colleges due to lack of finances and need to engage in subsistence earning as early as possible. If one has to think of providing employment opportunities, then one cannot entirely ignore this high school graduating segment either. Thus one may find that nearly 200,000 job opportunities need to be created a year to fully absorb all high-school graduates or university degree or diploma holders.

Even those who do find employment are not satisfied with the pay structure and work conditions. Thus even the unsatisfied employed are a source of concern in addition to the totally unemployed.

The unemployed are the ones who end up in cases of drug addiction, crime, vandalism etc. A sizeable chunk of youth is engaged in various forms of criminal activities. The impact’s much more severe for males because they are the ones expected to earn the main livelihood for the family. The females on the other hand are mostly not interested to work after marriage or the pressure for them to earn is not that high. Whatever they earn is generally considered an additional supplement to the family income. Thus, since the pressure is not so severe on the females, their frustrations are also much lower and thus their involvement in delinquent and criminal activities is much less.
Sometimes there is an indirect effect on females when their husbands are not able to earn enough to meet their expectations. At those times they go into depressive states and resort to continual remonstrations against their husbands which ultimately leads to more stress on the males. Many marital problems also arise from financial constraints and the continual complaining of many wives. This is the manner in which females are affected by unemployment and how they transfer the impact of that effect back on to the males in a more magnified form.

Thus because of the unemployment problem and all the evils that it brings about, the large youth population is often considered more a burden than a boon for the nation by the general people, but not so by the policy makers who continue to remain optimistic and inspire others into believing that it is this youth who will change the future of the nation for the better.

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by Dulal Biswas
Published on: Jan 22, 2005
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Type: Opinions
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=5064


Unemployment is a serious concern for the people of Bangladesh, especially the youth. People know quite well enough that there are too few jobs for far too many people. Almost 50,000 youth complete university degrees or diploma courses each year across the country and as the number of the people being involved into education is increasing; accordingly the number of graduates each year is also increasing. The number may reach up to 100,000 a year within the next 7 years as a much greater number of children have been injected into the education stream in the last decade. However, it is not possible to create as many job openings for the youth. In fact, there are a far greater number who complete high-school but do not even go into the universities or colleges due to lack of finances and need to engage in subsistence earning as early as possible. If one has to think of providing employment opportunities, then one cannot entirely ignore this high school graduating segment either. Thus one may find that nearly 200,000 job opportunities need to be created a year to fully absorb all high-school graduates or university degree or diploma holders. Even those who do find employment are not satisfied with the pay structure and work conditions. Thus even the unsatisfied employed are a source of concern in addition to the totally unemployed. The unemployed are the ones who end up in cases of drug addiction, crime, vandalism etc. A sizeable chunk of youth is engaged in various forms of criminal activities. The impact’s much more severe for males because they are the ones expected to earn the main livelihood for the family. The females on the other hand are mostly not interested to work after marriage or the pressure for them to earn is not that high. Whatever they earn is generally considered an additional supplement to the family income. Thus, since the pressure is not so severe on the females, their frustrations are also much lower and thus their involvement in delinquent and criminal activities is much less. Sometimes there is an indirect effect on females when their husbands are not able to earn enough to meet their expectations. At those times they go into depressive states and resort to continual remonstrations against their husbands which ultimately leads to more stress on the males. Many marital problems also arise from financial constraints and the continual complaining of many wives. This is the manner in which females are affected by unemployment and how they transfer the impact of that effect back on to the males in a more magnified form. Thus because of the unemployment problem and all the evils that it brings about, the large youth population is often considered more a burden than a boon for the nation by the general people, but not so by the policy makers who continue to remain optimistic and inspire others into believing that it is this youth who will change the future of the nation for the better. « return.