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growth. Fresh graduates are involved in the study and data were analyzed.
Unemployment is an important issue for developing economies in a country.
Inefficiently of using labor resources will cause to high unemployment rate.
The result shows that the economics in Malaysia is better with high
employment.
In economics, unemployment statistics measure the condition and extent of
joblessness within an economy. Full employment should be a major
macroeconomics goal because it maximizes output. For many years, the
manufacturing has been the strongest sector in the country until it is now
being progressively replaced by the service sector.
In this research, we will measure how unemployment affects economics
growths in Malaysia and also the reason of high unemployment rate of fresh
graduate. Thus further research and relevant factors is required.
Outline
Introduction.
How unemployment affects economic growth in Malaysia.
In a 2011 news story, Business Week reported, "More than 200 million people
globally are out of work, a record high, as almost two-thirds of advanced
economies and half of developing countries are experiencing a slowdown in
employment growth".
Cause of unemployment
The level of unemployment differs with economic conditions and other market
forces. Unemployment occurs when an individual is out of his current job and
looking for another job. It also means that they are unemployment during the
time period of shifting between two jobs. Normally the job seeker needs few
months to hunt for their favourite job.
When there is a mismatch of skilled workers in the labor market, the structural
change within an economy will influence the unemployment. Some of the
causes of unemployment are geographical immobility, occupational immobility
Malaysia government has to put a lot of effort into the education sector to
upgrade the ranking and provide talents to international labour markets.
The syllabus in local university is not sufficient or up to the satisfaction of
working environment. Most of the students gain their knowledge purely from
textbooks. They lack of practical skills. Facilities in university have not
reached the global standard and still maintained in "Kampung" standard.
Professors and researchers are not graduates from world-class Universities.
Equipments in the laboratories are 10-20 years backward. These are all the
reasons why more and more students are willing to study in overseas
universities although the cost of education is expensive.
Moreover, the qualification lines of entering the universities are very low, as
the corresponding university standard is low as well. University should set the
higher entry qualification to increase the standard of coming students.
Besides, the university should increase their level as well by employing
professional stuffs to strengthen education levels. A lot of private colleges
which are unqualified set by the Ministry of Education intend to promote as a
university. The official explanation is this can improve the quantity of
undergraduates. However, it seems the government did not include the quality
of undergraduates into their consideration.
It is suggested that Ministry of education should review the education system
in Malaysia by referring to foreign education systems to improve Malaysia
education system.
With a huge number of students graduating with CGPAs below 3.0, it is
unsurprising that these people become "unemployable" in the Malaysian
private sectors. It is recommended that students should take courses based
on their capabilities and interests but not based on what is apparently "indemand" in the society (e.g., IT courses). If students are not interested in the
courses, less effort would be put in the study; hence, the result would not be
scored in flying colour. Normally the company hire employees based on their
paper results and abilities instead of their capabilities in other fields. Student
with lower scores would probably get lower opportunities of interviews.
Type of unemployment
After the research, we found that there are four type of unemployment. And
below is the summary of structural unemployment, frictional unemployment,
and cyclical unemployment.
Structural unemployment
When there are less suitable job provide for the people will cause to structural
unemployment because there is a mismatch between the skills needed for the
jobs and the skills of the unemployed workers. For example, A employee fired
by his car maker company because machine had replace human in making
car and the employee does not know how to operate the machine, so the
employee only have the skills of make car and he have the difficulty in
searching a new job.
Structural unemployment may also be affected by cyclical unemployment. If a
nation's economy is suffers from a recession, that means many of the
unemployed workers become discouraged, while their skills become rusty and
outdated. This means that they (unemployed workers) may not suitable for the
job vacancies that are reserved for them when the economy turns to normal.
Some economists see this scenario "The implication is that sustained high
demand may lower structural unemployment" under the speech from British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1970s and 1980s. This theory
has been referred to as an example of path dependence.
A lot of technological unemployment occurs, because of the replacement of
workers had change into machines to produce more effectively, we called as
structural unemployment. Thus technological unemployment refer to the way
in which production increases by machine but lesser workers to produce the
actual same level of output or more output every year. The fact that aggregate
demand increase suggests that this problem is instead one of cyclical
unemployment. As like we said before "Okun's Law", the demand side must
grow rapidly to absorb the growing labor force but also the workers made
redundant by increased labor productivity.
Frictional unemployment
Frictional unemployment is the time period between jobs and unemployed
workers when a worker is seeking for a better job and or a new environment.
Frictional unemployment is always present in an economy no matter which
country are u, so the level of unemployment is calculated by the
In Malaysia, one of the badly affected sector is the nursing field whereby in
2010, more than 54% of the private nursing graduates were unemployed
three to four months after graduating, compared to only 21.7% in 2008 (The
Star, 2012). It is a worry situation as fresh graduates find themselves difficult
to get employed despite having a solid academic qualification.
Graph 1: Unemployment rate between Malaysia and United Kingdom.
This above research article and graph we are got from this website
http://hoileongchan.blogspot.com/2012/06/unemployment-in-malaysiaupdated-june.html by Jackie, Researcher.
Malaysia Unemployment Rate (From July 2010 until January 2012)
The unemployment rate in Malaysia was last reported at 3 percent in April of
2012. Historically, from 1998 until 2012, Malaysia Unemployment Rate
averaged 3.3600 Percent reaching an all time high of 4.5000 Percent in
March of 1999 and a record low of 2.8000 Percent in March of 2012. The
unemployment rate can be defined as the number of people actively looking
for a job as a percentage of the labor force. This page includes a chart with
historical data for Malaysia Unemployment Rate.
Needs of the labor market
Quality of education
Firstly, the quality of education has become a significant cause in current
situation and it getting worst. Seems like every year our country produces
more and more excellent students. This is proved where our students get
better and better result (straight A) in SPM or PMR. With the increasing
number of straight 'A' students in SPM and PMR, it seems like our student is
improving a lot. Besides that, it is also easier to find degree holders
anywhere. Surely, this is a good sign of the graduate's quality.
This statement may not bode well with some of the institutions out there but
this should be taken as a challenge, not a mockery. (Abdul Razak Ahmad,
New Straits times Sunday, March 20 2005) Most of the students will concern
only on the major subject instead of minor subject.
Besides, government also offer less minor subject to the students. Now the
majority of student studying only for certificate, so they do select the easier
subject compare to others. Most schools also began to commercialization to
benefit, they will reduce the level of subject, resulting in a lot more apparent
(look impressive but is worthless) of the University.
2. Economy
Secondly, fresh graduate unemployed because of the recession of economy
in our nation too. The changing of the economic structure is a probably cause
for the increasing number in unemployment.
For many years, the manufacturing has been the strongest sector controlling
the unemployment rate in the country until it is now being replaced by the
services sector step by step. The services sector requires people who do not
only know the right technical knowledge, but also those people who know the
right soft skills - wisdom, communication, interpersonal, maturity and business
oriented.
Economic growth
Economic growth can be defined as a process for indicating the increase or
decrease in per capita GDP. There are a lot of other factors such as
increasing in aggregate income of the individuals reflect economic growth.
Economic growth is usually calculated as the rate of GDP changes in a
particular period.
The total of goods and services produced considered as a reflection for
economic growth in the country. It can either be negative or positive in depend
on the decrease or increase compared to data of previous years. Negative
growth is often indicated to economic recession. When the GDP of a country
increases means there is a economic growth existed in the country or the
global economies.
Advantages of Economic Growth
Standard of living of the people will increase.
-Economy growth is an important point to bring better living standards and
lower rates of poverty. The average income of people can said that increases
and indirectly people able to consume more and motivate the economic
growth increasing.
Rising Employment.
-Economic growth stimulates employment. The economic growth produces
more vacancies for job and bring better standard of living to them.
3. Increased capital investment.
-Economic growth can use to increasing the capital investment.
Benefit to Government.
-Economic growth brings advanced tax incomes for the government, Because
of this, the government spends less unemployment benefits.
Superior public services.
-Due to government got government income as economy growth, it can spend
more on public services like education for contributing in superior public
services.
Enhanced business confidence.
-Economic growth creates positive effect as encourage people running their
businesses. As profits of small firms and business increase with economic
growth, their business confidence and will to grow up to meet more
challenges.
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Graph 3: Real GDP and Claimant Count Unemployment.
(http://tutor2u.net/economics/revision-notes/a2-macro-unemployment.html)
Disadvantages of economic growth
Inflation
-Potential High and rising inflation will occur due to demand grows faster than
long run productive. It may destabilizing for an economy as interest rate may
increase and can cause a loss of competitiveness in international markets.
Regional disparities
-Although average living standards may be rising, there is a gap between rich
and poor. It can widen the issues of poverty and make a wide gap between
different regions.
Pollution
-Economic growth never separated from environmental issues. Rapid growth
of production and consumption may create environment pollution such as
sound and air pollution and road congestion.
-Environmental damage may bring negative effects on our quality of life. For
the example, road congestion will produce more Co2 in a high density area.
The health of residents in that area will been affected.
How does unemployment affect your economy?
Wealth drainage.
The government need provides monetary assistance when someone
unemployed, so a high unemployment rate means that it has to pay more
fund to help a large number of unemployed people. It is creating a heavy
burdenfor a government. Wealth is drained for unproductive purposes and
economic growth slows down.
Slack in flow of money
Unemployment slows down the circular flow of income by the lack of money
inflow and outflow. When money does not pump into the economy, its growth
becomes slowed down even stuck.
Wage inflation
As the increasing in competition for vacancies of jobs and wide availability of
labor, the cost of labor reduced. For those who are employed will be affected
as rise in unemployment. So that we can see that reduction in salaries and
wage leads to decrease in the amount of tax collection on the income. This
will decrease sufficient funds to pump into the economy.
Reduction in consumer expenditure
The unemployed are naturally trying to cut-off their financial budget for
expenditure during the period of unemployment. This issue leads to reduction
in consumer expenditure due to financial limitations. In the retail sector, the
companies often fire their employees due to reduction in output and maintain
profits and cut off their budgets to survive as decreasing in sales translates.
Increase in debts
Due to decreasing in availability of funds with the government to invest in
public spending, gain from investment will be reduced. The government will
raise tax rates. Lesser capital flow in the economy will case debts and
borrowings come with interest. it will increase the financial burden for people
who unemployed or earning lesser income, it will be harder to repay debts.
This increases mortgages on housing, instances of bankruptcy and deflation.
Under-utilization of resources
High unemployment rate will produce wastage of labor productivity, underutilization of the machinery and raw sources to produce output to match less
demand for goods and services. Negative growth in demand and supply leads
to deflation
Decrease in return on investment
High deficit is an outcome of high unemployment in the economy. Due to high
unemployment, national income tax is low .So, government get less return on
investment (ROI) as fewer budgets to invest. After that, this will affect
confident of investors to government, they may start pulling out money from
the economy to invest in other more effective industries.
The consequences of unemployment to the Malaysian economy
Unemployment Rises
Many issues will be occurs if cases of unemployment would not be reduced.
Many people who unemployed are looking for limited job and this will benefit
the employers that they need paid less salary for employees only as
employees need to get the job , in the most simplest way, they willing to work
with a few of salary. In the other side, the wage inflation will rise. Price of
goods of service will maintain but their salary is few. People need to cut off
their financial budget by reducing expenditure for surviving. After that, profit of
business will affected. The owner of business may decide to fire his/her
employee to shorten the budget and the unemployment occurs. That is a
negative circular.
Unemployment reduced
With the economic growth, unemployment reduced but inflation occurs. Cost
of all goods of service rise. Besides it, the economic growth will cause
environment pollution because many factory and company is built up such as
water and air pollution.
Unemployment influence and effect economic growth
Unemployment financial costs
In many countries the government has to pay the unemployed some benefits.
The greater the number of the unemployed or the longer they are without
work the more money the government has to shell out. Therefore, the nation
not only has to deal with the lost income and decreased production but also
with additional cost.
Spending power
The spending power of an unemployed reduce drastically and they would like
to cut off they expenditure, so that their consumer power will decrease, the
economy growth will slow down.
Reduced spending power of the employed
Increased taxes and the insecurity may affect the spending power of the
working people and they too may start to spend less since they worried meet
the unemployment.
Recession
Last but not least, although education is not the only major factor but it also
caused a certain degree of influence. Hope that the Government will be able
to improve our education system and the control of foreign labor population to
reduce domestic unemployment rate and increase the economic growth.