Abstract: Unemployment is a severe problem for economic development. Bangladesh is suffering a lot on unemployment issue. The present study is conducted to explore the current unemployment scenario in Bangladesh based on education level by different age groups, genders and areas. The study is mainly based on secondary data which wastaken from various publications, government and other organizationsfrom home and aboard. It is observed that unemployment at rural areas is much severe than urban areas and same is situation for both male and female people in rural and urban areas. The age category showed that rural unemployment situation at different age groups is also far behind from urban age groups. Overall, rural based educated people were more unemployed (2.63%) whereas urban based educated people were less unemployed (1.64%). The study also offers some recommendations for improving employment condition in rural areas.
Keywords: Unemployment; Urban; Rural.
Title: Gender Based Urban-Rural Unemployment Status in Bangladesh
Author: Md. Nur Islam
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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