A Comprehensive Analysis of Key Factors Leading to Unemployment Among Youth in the Maldives

Youth unemployment is one of the key socio-economic problem that bring social disturbance, and economic recession facing most developing countries. Thus, youth unemployment can be considered as one of the most challenging economic problem faced by the policy makers of the developing countries. This study will examine social and demographic determinants of the youth unemployment in the Maldives. The intensity of the youth unemployment is high in urban areas specifically in Male’, which is the capital city of the Maldives where youth face serious difficulty in getting employment opportunities due to numerous factors. According to many researchers it was revealed that this rising trend of economically inactive youth creates the burden to the society in many ways. Yet, little is known about the key determinants behind the youth unemployment in the Maldives.
To shed on light on this problem, researcher conducted this study to assess the determinants of youth employment status in the Maldives and to suggest policy recommendations to alleviate the youth unemployment issue in Maldives. The researcher collected primary data from randomly selected youth and further used Pearson’s product moment correlation
coefficient technique and multiple regression analysis as the main methodologies for the analysis of data. The findings demonstrate that two significant predictors to influence youth employment status which is education and work experience. Furthermore, this study will contribute to fill the gap of literature review relating to the youth unemployment in the Maldives and will open up gateways to lead future research on youth employment.