The size of obligatory joblessness hit 6,190, involving 1,400 males and 4, 775 females, accounting for only two percent of the country’s manpower, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning Yehya al-Okaili quoted the study as saying.
Forced unemployment even were university graduates and experienced specialists, he said.
Joblessness constituted five percent of the country’s manpower, including one percent for males and nine percent for females, he noted.
Therefore, he called for resolving compulsory joblessness, developing vocational training, setting a policy linking education and training, and shoring up the role of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training.
It is necessary to carry out training programs in collaboration with some private companies concerned as per specific criteria for training the unemployed and spurring youth to have their own business, he said.
He quoted the study as recommending an information collection system on the needs of the labor market, and restricting the recruitment of foreign laborers in order to provide more jobs to nationals.
The percentage of the under-30-year-old unemployed males reached 48 percent, and that of the under-40-year-old unemployed males was 75 percent, while the under-30-year-old jobless females hit 45 percent, he said.
Unemployed husbands and wives accounted for 70.4 percent, divorced and widowed jobless people were 10 percent. Jobless wives outnumbered jobless husbands by 75 percent to 41 percent, he said, citing the study.
Joblessness among holders of university certificates did not exceed 1.4 percent, vocational training certificate holders; 4.8 percent, secondary certificate holders; 12 percent, and no-certificate holders; 81 percent, he concluded.
