Employment means occupation. To be busy in doing something productive is to be employed. So unemployment means the absence of employment. When the people are out of work and have nothing to do, they are said to be employed. Unemployment is a worldwide problem. Even advanced countries like U.S.A, U.K, and France have this problem. In the third world countries, unemployment is at its highest peak. Pakistan is no exception.
Unemployment is a social evil of far-reaching consequences. It spells starvation, disease and death on its victims. Dishonesty, corruption, crime, sin and vices of all kinds prevail in a society where the population is unemployed on a large scale. People busy in finding out a job for them cannot joy attention to their rights and duties as citizens. Moreover, when a large portion of the population is unemployed, no effort to increase the national income can succeed.
The causes of this wide-spread unemployment are four, our system of education does not suit our needs. Much attention is paid to general and liberal education. Our country is an advancing country and needs skilled hands. Secondly, our absorb all our young men in factories. Moreover, they are not skilled. Thirdly, in our country, a few privileged persons are keeping all the key industries to them. If work and leisure are equally distributed all men will have enough of work and enough of leisure. But the educated young men and common men have neither the capital nor the opportunities to try their luck in business. Lastly, in our country birth-rate is very high. The sources of the country are not enough to maintain such a large population. People are more, the jobs are few. The result is unemployment.
In order to remove the unemployment, the country should be industrialized to provide new channels of employment. The concept of education should be changed. It is only after a long time struggle that we can get rid of the evil make a country prosperous.