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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Unemployment In Malaysia

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Unemployment In Malaysia INTRODUCTION Over the past decades, early 1980’s to 2010 the unemployment problem in Malaysia shows the fluctuations year by years. Besides, unemployed graduates have become the popular case in Malaysia that need more concern by the government. A statistic shows in year 2006 involving 132,900 graduates from institutions of higher learning all over Malaysia indicated that 30.7% of graduates remained unemployed six months after graduation, while 5.7% were still awaiting job placement (Tan, 2007). According to Nor Hartinin, there are more female graduates in this country were unemployed because they lacked with the relevant skills required in the labour market such as communication skills despite having academic results with flying colours. The …show more content…

It also arises when workers lose their job because of computerization and their skills are no longer in demand and technology is takes over their jobs when the new technology can produce output at the same level with the fever workers. So the company decide to fired them and buy more new technology in order to get more profit. DISADVANTAGES OF UNEMPLOYMENT Many disadvantages of unemployment and it can be divided into 3 broad categories that re individual, family and economy. INDIVIDUAL For individual, it will bring the financial problems to them because they do not have money to support their expenditure in daily life. A worker who unemployed for a long time as a result can lose his self-esteem. The feeling of inadequacy can lead to depression, frustration and lastly can bring them to make a stupid decision such as suicide. Their job skills also may be loses if they lack of application. FAMILY The family also effect because family income will falls and expenditure will reduce. The respect of his immediate family and friends also lose. This can lead to increase in domestic violence and families can split out.

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