Negative Effects of Unemployment Due to Barriers. A Case Study in the Municipality of Laguindingan

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: 4.00, course: International Studies, language: English, abstract: Unemployment has become an existing macroeconomic problem for developing and even developed countries. Despite the efforts of the government to lessen the rate of unemployment, the problem still exists and it negatively affects the unemployed population. In this paper, common employment barriers in Laguindingan (a municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, Philippines) and its corresponding negative financially, socially, and psychologically effects are researched. Interviews with fifty unemployed individuals were conducted and the findings are presented descriptively. The current national census tells that the Philippine population is at 102,377,484. More than six million individuals of this estimate or about 6.1 percent are unemployed; in the province of Misamis Oriental, around 5.6 percent of the population are presently unemployed. For the past five years, the unemployment rate has significantly changed; however, changes are noticeably fluctuating. This paper seeks to determine the most common employment barriers and their corresponding negative effects to individuals residing in the municipality of Laguindingan which is an emerging town in terms of business, tourism, and the likes; the researchers find it considerable to conduct a study on unemployment for future assessment and use in making the town more productive.