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Unemployment in Lebanon: 60 thousand jobs are vacant because of government paralysis or lack of appropriate skills
15-9-2016
Al Akhbar once again highlights the issue of unemployment in Lebanon focusing on a study carried out by the UNDP on the realities of the job market in Lebanon (c.f. http://bit.ly/2cwMFeZ) which estimated that Lebanon needs to create 23,000 job opportunities annually and that is between 2013 and 2023 at a time when the job market was only able to create between 12 to 15,000 jobs during the past ten years. The study noted that the percentage of unemployed amongst the youth between15 to 29 years, which constitute 28% of the overall population, reached 34%, representing 66% of the total unemployed, while the share of youth emigrants was estimated at 44% of total emigration. The study also notes that the rise of youth unemployment and migration is due to the fact that 41% of youth work in jobs which do not match their training as well as to shortfalls in the education and training sector. The newspaper article went on to say that the gap between job seekers and existing job descriptions in the industry varies between 10 to 15,000 jobs, and between 20 to 30,000 jobs in tourism. Furthermore, data reveals the existence of 5,000 industrial outfits employing around 90,000 workers. On the other hand, the total number of people employed in the hospitality and leisure businesses is estimated at 155,000 employees who are distributed amongst 6,000 permanent outfits and 4,000 seasonal outfits. At the level of the public sector, and according to the same source, some 17,000 posts in the public sector remain unfilled because of government paralysis, at a time when there is a significant surplus in the professional sector (lawyers, doctors, engineers, and pharmacists). (Al-Akhbar 14 September 2016)
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