Countries by unemployment rate

The unemployment rate here is counted in a very questionable method. Actual Central Bank of Kuwait economists use a rate around 21% when devising policy.

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good luck w/ figures coming out from the arab governements….or any government for that matter. its just that some are less bad bad than others

DesertSky: where did you get that 90% of the population is expat in Kuwait. Hello! this is Kuwait not Dubai

i guess there is a big difference between “Employed” and “Gets Salary without going to work”

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/573438-30000-kuwait-govt-staff-get-pay-without-work—paper

“Iraq has an unemployment rate of 18% but 83% of the woman in Iraq are unemployed”. How come?

Assuming that women constitute about 50% of the population, an 83% unemployment rate for women should make the unexployment rate for the country at minimum 41.5% (if all men are employed, which isn’t the actual case). So what is the criteria used for these calculations?

This is such a ridiculous comparison.

In Kuwait, the vast majority of the population is employed by the govt. in unproductive jobs. These jobs are created and exist solely to keep people employed.

For instance, the ministry of education is the biggest employer in the country. They have more administrative staff than teachers and school staff. The ministry of health similarly has more administrative staff than doctors and nurses.

There is a big difference between have a productive private sector job and an economically unproductive job created by the govt. for the sake of keeping people in work.

This way you could have 0% unemployment, the govt. could spend oil money hire everyone. But that is meaningless.

Mark,

Please note this point in your post. Otherwise it is a very misleading one.

Thanks.

Nothing is misleading!
i think the government should embark on very strong drive towards “Kuwaitization” of the jobs and hence force the private sector to employ/train/reward Kuwaiti employees. the majority might need intensive training right now and this is fine and can be paid partly by the government. am afraid though that the private sector like everywhere else around the world is too money hungry to care about the well being of the larger socity. This is very hard when you have an interest lobby group called the “Kuwait Chamber of Commerce” and with the top merchant familiese there heading it its totally against their interests to do anything that would put thier monopolies and their profits (largely driven by hiring low cost employees that basically have no protection) at risk!

Ed:
The natural tendency for private sector companies to hire the cheaper staff. w/out legally forcing them and enforcing it with penalties; the companies in Kuwait will keep getting workers from outside, especially w/out limits on the visas issued.

“if you don’t have a job here you can’t stay if I am not mistaken.”

Yeah that’s the same as every other country. If you’re there on a working visa, you have to have a job.
If you’re just a visitor, you have to be out within a certain period of time.
The only people allowed to stay in the country without a job are nationality holders, the citizens.