Abstract
Currently, urban unemployment is alarming with drastic scenario. In this regard urban areas area highly affected by unemplyments. For this problem several factors are assumed to be in charge. These factors themselves vary from place to place. Urban areas occupied by numerous residents. Those residents are mainly jobseekers. Urban unemployment touches enormous issues include difficulties related to joblessness, system of dealing with such difficulties, entrepreneurship or self employment tendencies and complexity of the patterns of urban unemployment problems. However, the challenges, coping mechanisms, self employment trends and patterns of urban unemployment issues were not well examined and analyzed. Therefore, in this research those gaps were considered and key findings were realized. This research utilized quantitative data source and quantitative research methods were employed. Statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS) version 20 software was utilized for both descriptive and inferential statistics. In fact, socio-demographic characteristics of respondents such as sex, educational categories and marital status were examined. Furthermore, variables, which potentially predict urban unemployment rate, were sufficiently quantified. Association and regression analysis was done for patterns of urban unemployment that help to identify determinants of urban unemployment. So this article was supposed to fill previous gaps concerning quantification of urban unemployment and its patterns.
Highlights
Nowadays, urban growth creates both opportunities and challenges for urbanresidents
Socio-demographic Characteristics of Respondents Sex The description of sex of respondents has been identified and the detail of this finding as organized in table 1 indicated that 46.9% of the respondents were male and 53.1% of respondents were females
The more female number can suggest that females are more likely to confine at urban centers and they are the most vulnerable group in terms of unemployment
Summary
Among urban problems unemployment is the critical urban issue. [3] In line with this Fitsum (2014) states that the phenomenon of unemployment is one of the major social problems of most urban centers of Ethiopia. This research aims at uncovering those underlying causes of urban unemployment and associated challenges as well as coping mechanisms. This analysis of urban unemployment has several advantages for different stakeholders. It helps policy makers to consider several issues while addressing urban unemployment problems. This finding can help other scientific community members to use this information as a source and can conduct further study.
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