Carian mengenai topik unemployment

Post-pandemic, KL's low-income households remain in a state of financial precarity, according to the recently released report ‘Living on the Edge’ by UNICEF. While there's been a recovery in incomes and unemployment, the escalating living costs and food prices leaves many households teetering on the edge, in which one in two children are forced to skip meals and have fewer than three meals daily. How can we prevent these families from slipping through the cracks amidst the ongoing cost of living crisis? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Juanita Vasquez Escallon, Chief of Social Policy of UNICEF Malaysia, and Dr Muhammed Khalid, Lead Researcher of DM Analytics.

A growing cohort of fresh graduates poised to enter the job market, are instead choosing to 'boomerang' back to university for advanced degrees—Master's and PhDs—aiming to enhance their career prospects. However, this trend has led to the rise of 'overeducation,' where highly qualified individuals find themselves in jobs that do not match their level of education or fully utilise their advanced skills.

Does this phenomenon point to a significant disconnect between the world of education and the world of work? And how does the pursuit of higher qualifications impact the expectations and realities of the job market for the younger generation? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Amirul Rafiq Abu Rahim, Research Associate at Khazanah Research Institute. He specialises in labour market analysis, focusing on youth unemployment issues and the career progression of tertiary-educated young workers in Malaysia.

Secretary of Penggerak Belia Selangor, Yip Jenzen and CEO of Troopers Malaysia, Joshua Tan, discuss how the rapid growth of the gig sector and interest among Malaysian youth can be harnessed to tackle youth unemployment, and the role of the Gig Transformation Initiative in this. #ItsAboutYOUth

Malaysia's youth unemployment rate dropped to 10.1 pct in the first quarter of the year compared to 11.1 pct for the same period last year.

For the past decade or so, the government has been ineffective in remedying the problem.

Recent challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and disrupted supply chains, have highlighted the need to always be prepared for times of crises.

This is a loss for Sabah because the human capital resources that we need to develop Sabah are migrating to the peninsula, Abqaree said.

Special legislation for semi-formalisation is the way forward towards a more balanced bargaining relations.

Ruto must now confront an economic crisis, where food and fuel prices are surging, unemployment is high and public debt rising.

The Malaysian labour market continued to strengthen, recording 3.7 per cent in July 2022, nearing pre-pandemic levels according to the publication of the Labour Force Statistics.

It's still way too early to tell whether M'sia remains consistently on a positive economic trajectory for Q3 & Q4 2022 as well as next year.

The infrastructure in Sabah is still at an unsatisfactory level, making it difficult for the state government to attract large investors and thus create more job opportunities.

New report ahead of the International Youth Day shows large regional differences in young people's prospects in the labour market.

The unemployment rate among youths aged between 15 and 40 nationwide has dropped to 5.3 per cent in the first quarter of this year.

Malaysia needs to embark on wide-ranging structural reforms before "it is too late".