UNMPLOYMENT

PRESENTED BY:
CATURAS, JADE
BOLINA, ROLANI
GATUMBATO, JONAH GRACE
MM 2-6

Unemployment
occurs when people
are without work and
actively seeking work.

Effects of Unemployment

*Increase in crime rate such as robbery just

to feed their families....
*Women abort children during pregnancy
*Children are forced to stop school and work
*Parents are forced to leave their children
and work abroad
*More poor people sleep at squatters
*More people die
*Malnutrition
*Rate of beggars increase
*Food decrease
*People rallies outside the governments
office

Why Unemployment Is A Problem?

Unemployment has been a problem for
every
country in this and last century.
In earlier times when people lived on
their farmsin countryside there was no
unemployment.
There
was
always
something to work on. Also, in all ex communist countries
there was no
unemployment, but in most workplaces
there were 3 or more people
working
even if only worker was needed. This
type of situation is
called hidden
unemployment and causesinefficiency.

What are the most important reasons

for this happening?
1) Not enough jobs.
2) Mismatch between skills needed and
skills workers actually have.
3) Mismatch in location of companies
and workers.

Solutions used by the Government

1) Full development of small-scale, laborintensive industries.
2) Choosing appropriate labor -intensive
technologies of production.
3) Creating a more direct link between
education and employment.
4) Reduce rural migration.
5) Remove capital intensive bias.
6) Employment strategy package.

Statistical update
Philippines Unemployment
Rate1994-2015
Unemployment Rate in Philippines
increased to 6.50 percent in the third
quarter of 2015 from 6.40 percent in the
second quarter of 2015. Unemployment
Rate in Philippines averaged 8.82 percent
from 1994 until 2015, reaching an all
time high of 13.90 percent in the first
quarter of 2000 and a record low of 6
percent in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Unemployment Rate in Philippines is

Philippines Jobless Rate Falls in July

Philippines unemployment rate was at
6.5 percent in July of 2015, down from
6.7 percent a year earlier but up from
6.4 percent reported in April 2015.
There were 2,724 thousand
unemployed persons. Among the
unemployed persons, 62.1 percent were
males. The age group 15 to 24 years
comprised 50.4 percent, while the age
group 25 to 34, 29.5 percent. By
educational attainment, 22.2 percent of
the unemployed were college graduates,

Meanwhile, the number of

underemployed was 8,219 in
July. More than 50 percent
worked for less than 40 hours
a week and 38.3 percent
worked in the agriculture
sector, while 44.2 percent
were in the services sector.
Those in the industry sector
accounted for 17.6 percent.

In July of 2015, there were 39,174

thousand employed persons. 55.5
percent worked in the services
sector, 28.0 percent in agriculture
and the remaining 16.5 percent in
industry.
The labor force participation rate fell
to 63.0 percent from 64.4 percent a
year ago.