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Young, educated Iranians create a 'tsunami' of unemployment

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Promising to reverse the trends of the Ahmadinejad era and bring prosperity and opportunity back to the country, Hassan Rouhani won the presidency one year ago. Rouhani is having some success repairing Tehran’s diplomatic relations while pushing for the removal of Western sanctions, but so far gains made on the international scene have done little to jumpstart the Islamic Republic’s lethargic economy or create new jobs, the numbers show.

Years of sanctions, strong family networks and a social welfare system that subsidizes the incomes of most Iranians have all contributed to an environment in which not working has become sociably acceptable. Yet millions of young Iranians are unsatisfied with their lives and choosing a variety of paths in the hopes of improving them — often by leaving Iran.

“As a generation we do not have anything; we don’t build anything,” said Sanaz Azimipour, 22, an unemployed mathematics student at Tehran University. “If our parents do not give us a room or do not feed us, we will either end up depressed or addicted to drugs,” said Azimipour, who sees no future for herself professionally here after she graduates next year.

“As a generation we do not have anything; we don’t build anything.”~Sanaz Azimipour
Iran’s population has doubled since its 1979 revolution, but the number of university students in the country has increased more than 25 times to over 4.5 million people.

Iran’s Labor Minister, Ali Rabiei, believes youth unemployment will soon become an even bigger issue as millions more young people finish their education and start looking for jobs.

The Labor Ministry has earmarked nearly $75 million to be paid to 100,000 university-educated, unemployed Iranians.

But that's just a drop in the bucket.

More than 2.5 million young Iranians are currently unemployed, of which 1.1 million are university graduates, Rabiei said recently. He called the current unemployment situation in the country a "crisis" and said, “if the country doesn’t do something effective in creating jobs, we will face a tsunami of 5.6 million educated jobless.”

The country's official unemployment rate is over 12.2 percent, but some analysts believe the real figure is as much as double that. Youth unemployment stands at over 26 percent, Iran’s Statistics Center recently reported, but experts say the figure could be as high as 40 percent.

“We cannot use the state’s figures as the basis of studies for the correct rate of unemployment, because they are not statistically sound,” said Hamid Haj-Esmaeili, an expert in the labor field
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"An idle mind is the devils playground".

Better get these kids something to do, young people without work tend to look for trouble.

"An idle mind is the devils playground".

Better get these kids something to do, young people without work tend to look for trouble.
 
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Why the fvck doee the idiotic regime in Iran encourage the youth to go to college if it cant find or create enough jobs for them? It would be better to just encourage traditional roles in the family and have these young people work at their family business or small businesses instead of spending thousands for college degrees only to not find the jobs they prepared and studied for after graduating.
 
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They are welcome to come Turkiye we always in the need of educated work class.
 
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U.s accepts Iranian immigrants more than most groups just to make the government of Iran look bad if you didnt know.

The regime in Iran should do something right for once and ban emigration.
ha?

The **** are you talking about?

@New My favorite part of the article:

have all contributed to an environment in which not working has become sociably acceptable.

I can totally see that attitude in my family members back in Iran and those that came over here in their 20's (so they kept that mindset). Going back to the article's main message, what I'm going to add is that if the Iranian government wants to function in its current format (as a communist/capitalist semi-open/semi-state owned economy), it needs to open up and find a way to fuel the country's economy asap and create tons of manufacturing jobs over the next decade (something that will almost certainly not happen).

The country's economy, irrelevant of the sanctions, is essentially more akin to Cuba or the former Soviet Union than it is to a modern open market economy. As such, the state is ultimately responsible for the welfare of its work force and they're failing this work force by a gross and wide margin right now.
 
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Why they cant start their own indigenous industry?They can export their items to the BRICS and other nations.
With this much oil and gas resources,
this seems confusing.After all they have just only 7.7 crore people.
 
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no thanks...
USA is better place
Maybe, but hundreds of thousands of young Iranians have moved to Turkey and will continue to move there in the foreseeable future. Their economy is growing, Iran's economy is, as always, in the sewer.
 
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Why they cant start their own indigenous industry?They can export their items to the BRICS and other nations.
With this much oil and gas resources,
this seems confusing.After all they have just only 7.7 crore people.
You're approaching the subject in a wrong way. Don't think of Iran's government in the same way you think of other governments, whether open and democratic or closed and dictatorial. Iran is a theocracy. To the central government, economy and industry come second to their religious "duties" and end goals. The regime never thinks about the economic and political consequences of any of its actions precisely because of those reasons. So they don't really care about unemployment, economic growth etc... unless these issues build up to such an extent that their survival is questioned. Only then they care.

Iran is being led to the grave by a bunch of muslim fundementalists and science, economics and correct politics have never been the strong points of any extremist Islamic groups.
 
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ha?

The **** are you talking about?

@New My favorite part of the article:



I can totally see that attitude in my family members back in Iran and those that came over here in their 20's (so they kept that mindset). Going back to the article's main message, what I'm going to add is that if the Iranian government wants to function in its current format (as a communist/capitalist semi-open/semi-state owned economy), it needs to open up and find a way to fuel the country's economy asap and create tons of manufacturing jobs over the next decade (something that will almost certainly not happen).

The country's economy, irrelevant of the sanctions, is essentially more akin to Cuba or the former Soviet Union than it is to a modern open market economy. As such, the state is ultimately responsible for the welfare of its work force and they're failing this work force by a gross and wide margin right now.

What do you mean the fvck am I talking about? Visas and asylum applications are handed out to any Iranian wanting to go abroad for whatever freaking reason, especially the youth and college grads. Even if you make up a total bullshat reason as to why you want asylum in the west or america, theyll give you asylum if youre Iranian to make Iran look bad politically, as most refugees file political reasons to wanting to leave, when in reality 99% of them leave for economic reasons and jobs. Im not saying the regime in Iran is good, but this is all masterminded by america, england, west and even israel to create issues for Iran, such as brain drain etc...
 
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I can totally see that attitude in my family members back in Iran and those that came over here in their 20's (so they kept that mindset). Going back to the article's main message, what I'm going to add is that if the Iranian government wants to function in its current format (as a communist/capitalist semi-open/semi-state owned economy), it needs to open up and find a way to fuel the country's economy asap and create tons of manufacturing jobs over the next decade (something that will almost certainly not happen).
The country's economy, irrelevant of the sanctions, is essentially more akin to Cuba or the former Soviet Union than it is to a modern open market economy. As such, the state is ultimately responsible for the welfare of its work force and they're failing this work force by a gross and wide margin right now.
Thanks, dude. You are right but if and only if you believe that the country has not yet passed the no return point, but according to my personal conclusions we have long passed that special point.
This country is filled with uneducated, mesmerized dumbs, whom are lacking the ability of thinking, and is doomed to face it's defined fate.
 
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Thanks, dude. You are right but if and only if you believe that the country has not yet passed the no return point, but according to my personal conclusions we have long passed that special point.
This country is filled with uneducated, mesmerized dumbs, whom are lacking the ability of thinking, and is doomed to face it's defined fate.
Youre not gonna fix any issue with that kind of self-hating mentality.
 
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