Effects of Youth Unemployment in the Kingdom

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With ever rising number of graduates every year, the country is struggling to create more jobs. Today there are more than 9,000+ unemployed people in the kingdom (2013), and the number is still expected to rise by manifold. With such staggering figure, it has already overwhelmed the Government, and both private and corporate sectors. In the past, the school enrollment rate was lowest in South Asia, but today it has the highest in the region. This has led to more students enrolling to schools and then graduating from colleges. The reasons may be attributed to the free education policy in the country, which has made education accessible to children from all backgrounds, and free health care services, which has contributed to their well-being. 

Large pool of job seekers from all parts of the Dzongkhags are moving from rural to urban areas, mainly capital city Thimphu, and other major towns: Phuntsholing, Gelephu, Samdrup Jongkhar, Mongar, etc. in search of jobs. Very few seekers, if they are lucky, get jobs at government and private companies, but for others they have to wander for months or even for years looking for jobs. There are also people who use contacts and other methods of sort to circumvent the system to get good jobs, and usually they end up with good jobs. The notion of 'Corruption' is not a new subject. It's a known fact that corruption is practiced in many companies to hire or recruit new employees. 

For those job seekers who end up without jobs usually take on dozens of gigs to make ends meet. The problem with such 'temporary jobs' is it's not sustainable. There is no security, no benefits, or consistency. The Government might overlook and undermine such problems and ignore it completely, but such actions and ignorance will cause ripple effects everywhere.

1. Economy 
Unemployed youths like many others are a consumer. We buy things all the time. We drive the economic growth by buying goods and services. If we have large number of unemployed youths without income, it's really going to hurt our economy - production of goods and services will fall, investment will decrease, people will stop buying and start saving, payment on income taxes will decrease, etc. To run the long term economic growth cycle, we should start paying them by giving jobs.   

2. Crime
Unemployment is a major cause of crimes. People will start breaking rules and regulations and start resorting to all sorts of non-legal activities to make money. Suicide, murder, and robbery will take a toll in the society, creating instability in the country.  

 3. Health
People feel secure when they have jobs, and when there are no jobs people feel insecure. Insecurity also impact people's mentality by becoming more depressed. With no money in the pocket, they will not be able to go to the doctor and pay for the medication. Sometimes people also take their own lives when they go through all these hardships. 

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