Unemployment Issues of Bangladesh

Q. Give a general picture on unemployment issues of Bangladesh.

Unemployment issue is a major cause of poverty. A person of age 10 years and over is considered as unemployed if he/she did not work at all during the preceding week of survey and was actively looking for work or was available for work but did not work due to temporary illness or because of there was no work available. A person is employed if he or she spent most of the previous week working at a paid job. Thus a person is unemployed if he or she is on temporary layoff, is looking for a job or is waiting for the start date of the new job.

Unemployment issues of Bangladesh

The natural scenario unemployment issues of Bangladesh are-

• Rural to urban migration- Rural to urban migration create high unemployment issues.

• Fringe area to urban migration.

The major unemployment issues of Bangladesh are--

• Over population;

• High number of active population;

• Landless poor (manually poor);

• Gradually landlessness-come to urban area for job;

• Landless because of river erosion;

• Push labor force-if any center push labor force then the city will full of unemployment;

• Seasonal farmer;

• Growth of the labor force- The rate of growth of the labor force was high, increasing trend of female entering the labor force and an extended working age; The rate of job creation did not keep pace with the growth in labor force as reflected in the declining employment to population ratio;

• Illiteracy.

• Government policy for wage selection-wage selected by the government, does agree the garments industry labor, thus the industry could not expand and increase jobseekers and unemployment.

These are the common unemployment issues of Bangladesh.