Causes of Unemployment

  • Rapid changes in technology
  • Recessions
  • Inflation
  • Disability
  • Undulating business cycles
  • Changes in tastes as well as alterations in the climatic conditions. This may in turn lead to decline in demand for certain services as well as products.
  • Attitude towards employers
  • Willingness to work
  • Perception of employees
  • Employee values
  • Discriminating factors in the place of work (may include discrimination on the basis of age, class, ethnicity, color and race).
  • Ability to look for employment