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employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of an economy. The total number of unemployed person present in an economy is described as the unemployment rate which is measured in percentage. Presently in the Nigerian economy the unemployment rate is very high coupled with the fact that the economy is witnessing growth. The unemployment rate as at December, 2011 was 23.9%. There are the determinants of unemployment which are based on region been under consideration.

DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYMENT

The determinants of employment and also unemployment vary from countries to country. Nigeria about which we carrying out this research shows that there are various kinds of employment; which ranges from the formal employment and the informal employment, the self-employed to the civil servants i.e. the workers in government parastatals. The determinant of unemployment in Western Europe was given by a Professor of Economics in London school of Economics.

The following are the major determinants of employment in Western Europe:

Job matching services:

In most countries including Nigeria there are enterprises who are saddled with the responsibility of reducing the level of non availability of information on adequate jobs. These enterprises are involved in pasting of job adverts on newspapers and magazines and sometimes they do select suitable candidates to send in relation to certain vacancies.

Training:

One of the major elements in which jobs are made available is through adequate training of people. But this has been advocated as been the most unsuccessful of them all. People are trained through schools and even there in job training. Training serves as a signal to industries of an individual’s qualification for a particular or to fill a particular post or position. Training also increases the potential and skill of the person been trained and it leads to high productivity for the firm.

Youth measures:

Statistically proven it has been shown that youth measures to boost employment has been one of the least effective of the measures just because youths are more involved in youth activities like training as well as direct provision of work.

The then government of the United Kingdom gave more attention to its new deal on unemployed young people. The major aspect of the deal is the combination of benefit withdrawal after six months with a guarantee to find for each young person still unemployed at that stage, a job, a training scheme etc.

Subsidised Placement:

Subsidies to business enterprises taking on the unemployed people appear relatively helpful to the unemployed workers concerned, but these measures are none the less the most difficult to evaluate. It is always difficult to tell if the business enterprise concerned is a new business or one which would have existed anywhere. Using then chart below we illustrate the number of subsidized employment and participant inflows as a percentage of the labour force, 1994.

Subsidies to regular Employment in private sector

Employment Protection:

This covers the various administrative processes employers are required to go through (us