Economists in Cambodia expressed their concern over declining rate of employment in Cambodia, and that fear coincided with the claim that approximately 300,000 Cambodian adults do not have jobs, local newspaper Business Press reported on Monday.
Sok Sina, a researcher from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) said that the number of jobless people has increased from 10 to 20 percent and that people who have jobs mainly live in cities, while most people in rural areas have remained jobless.
He added that farmers cannot farm the entire year and that 12 percent of Cambodia's youth aged from 10 to 24 years old are unemployed.
Neak Samsan, a research official from the Economic Institute of Cambodia, said that in 2005 thousands of university graduates were jobless and every year thousands more who complete their education are unable to find jobs.
In 2004 the number of unemployed people was 0.8 percent. "Apart from local enterprises and markets, Cambodian laborers are sent to Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan," he added.
Source: Xinhua
Sok Sina, a researcher from the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) said that the number of jobless people has increased from 10 to 20 percent and that people who have jobs mainly live in cities, while most people in rural areas have remained jobless.
He added that farmers cannot farm the entire year and that 12 percent of Cambodia's youth aged from 10 to 24 years old are unemployed.
Neak Samsan, a research official from the Economic Institute of Cambodia, said that in 2005 thousands of university graduates were jobless and every year thousands more who complete their education are unable to find jobs.
In 2004 the number of unemployed people was 0.8 percent. "Apart from local enterprises and markets, Cambodian laborers are sent to Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan," he added.
Source: Xinhua
7 comments:
CAmbodia government of Hun Sen do not know anything about what different between;
- employment and unemployment.
- SAlary and welfare income
- real wage and slavery wage.
- open opportunity and control economy.
unemployment rate in Cambodia is almost 50% if we count it properly using western method.
These economists must be kidding. According to the government, the unemployment rate is so low that they can walk all over the jobless.
BB
Hey! Who says that you can't lie through statistic!
Even among economist themselves never clearly define unemployment. I think Cambodian people is too poor not to have job. I guess that those 300,000 adults thrive to make their own job, not to find job. You can see a lot of small businesses now operate by adult. Intuitively, jobless should have the most in the cities not in the rural areas. The problem of data is to define job. Some economist defined job as being hired by capitalist or work in a specific factory, institution or organization, while selling a gasoline along the road is not a job. Women works in the factory is employed, but women sell daily food outside the factory's gate is unemployed. In this sense, a clear definition is needed to see a real picture of unemployment in Cambodia. I don't think western definition is appropriate, since it provides a misleading image of Cambodia's economy.
I know there are lot of young men and women who just graduated from university have never found a job. That is included my own one brother and two sisters who were graduated from Bill Bright University in business.
Hi friend who posted at 10:32,
1-Job means an employment which has offered to you to work 8h/day and 5 days/week and you will get paid a minimum wage or salary which will enable you to survive confortably.
2-If that same job being offered to you at the same condition, but their payment to you only for you to live with miserable condition and last only 5 days or ten days per month and the rest of the month you will starve, it is not a propre job. That is called slavery labour.
3-For someone selling vegetable or gasoline in the street, we call them selfemployed. If this selfemployed can survive very easy from their business, they can contribute some tax to the nation. If not, this selfemployed will live in poverty. THis also a job but is a self-operator.
In most Nations, every person of both sex with age about 18 years of age must register for a tax number. If he cannot find an employment as per describe at 1, you must register yourself with unemployment agencies so that this agencies can report clearly to the government how many unemployed in the country so that the government must do all they can to find investments and find more job for the nation. In Cambodia, many shop owners have allowed their children to share job in the family without paid. In western countries, these children will not work for their parents if their parents won't pay them accordingly to the law.They will register with government agencies and get paid as unemployment benefit.
I know also there are lot of young men and women who just graduated from university have never found a job. That is included my sisters graduated from Institute of Technology of Cambodia in Food and Chemistry and my friends from Royal University of Phnom Penh in Chemistry. They government have a good data, but bad interpretation.....!
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