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A large number of young people can not find a job after leaving shool. what problems will youth unemployment cause for individuals and society? what measures should be taken to reduce the level of unemployment among young people? The world is in for a worsening youth unemployment, with its causes resembling their consequences. It goes without saying that youth unemployment needs to be tackled urgently, but this important task is anything but easy. However, if the microeconomic theory is of any use at all, it must include explanations, but also solutions to such problems as are affecting school leavers as individuals and society as the labor market. In a time of the economic recession, there is always a high jobless rate among young people, compared to the overall unemployment rate. This may explain in part why a large number of young people who are leaving school find it difficult to get a job. Particularly, youth unemployment spells a variety of hardships in a society that is powerless to create jobs. As unemployment balloons, competition among young individuals for jobs also rises, hence further pushing the society in general to tighten its belt, among other unpopular measures. Being part of a vicious economic cycle , massive unemployment carries an emotional toll, often too complex to define and too heavy a burden for the so-called scarred generation to bear with hope and dignity. In view of this situation, if little or nothing could be done soon enough to reduce the unemployment level, the societys law and order would be at risk, referring, as an example, to a link between youth unemployment and youth crime. | 
