Determining Causes and Effects “Revised Version

In a case where the breadwinner of a family lost his or her job, the whole of the family gets affected by the situation since the family will naturally lack the source of income that is needed to fulfill all of their needs (Taylor, 2002). Moreover, when this financial problem persists, financial security gets affected too since the family will be suffering physiologically, emotionally and even social disturbance. Anything that leads to the cause of unemployment is identified as a situation that is very disheartening and also affecting the wellbeing of the family.

Unemployment may occur due to economic conditions. This may be in a situation whereby a business may require cutting its expenses by offering its workers an incentive to take early retirements or maybe all of them a compulsory leave. Therefore, a person goes home thinking he or she will be called back again to work yet his or her job was ultimately terminated. Voluntary unemployment may cause an individual to end up being jobless (United State, 1982). These occur because some individuals are after jobs in which they have made their choice of. These peoples may have moved away from their original positions to shift into other jobs before even the deal is complete or may resign up from their jobs in order to go back to school.

Lack of employment may also result from a mismatch between available workers and the position to be replaced. This occurs when there is plenty of employees than the available vacancies; hence the available workers who are ready to occupy the available positions lacks enough qualification to perform the jobs (Komarovsky, 2004). Due to this issue, the unemployment percentage will increase more compared to when there is a surplus of available job openings in response to the people searching for a job. Lack of experience is a leading cause of unemployment.

The lack of employment brings a lot of effect on both peoples and social, economic levels. An individual who loses his or her job will always experience depreciating value of self-worth. If anyone finds himself or herself in a situation whereby he fails, or maybe he does not have any job, he or she experiences a lot of question through his or her mind and start doubting himself or herself for the mistake (Taylor, 2002). Another effect that may result from an individual due to the lack of his or her job is financial stability. These occur since there is a problem in financial income, and, therefore, one gets into the greater level of anxiety on how he or she will get to compensate that financial income. If these problems happen for an extended period it may turn into a disaster whereby people who have lost their jobs may have poorer mental health, lower life satisfaction, less family satisfaction, and hence lowering their physical health.

The rates of unemployment among youths seem to be higher compared with the other segments of the world. These is due to lack of enough experience required to take over the job which makes it difficult for young individuals to earn a job hence preventing them from gaining practical experience they need not unless they find someone to favor them with a job. Again, unemployment may be due to performance skills (Komarovsky, 2004). This may occur in a situation whereby a person may be lacking enough skills and qualification to perform a particular task, making an absenteeism each and every time, or may be in a situation whereby a person may involve himself in a conflict with his or her fellow workers or may be the management and, therefore, end up being given a dismissal letter and losing the job entirely.

Moreover, families’ struggles a lot when there is none of their members being employed. Children do not even understand why it has made to be their family situation and the reason they live disorderly life (United State, 1982). Therefore, as this grows to be their disaster the entire family is forced by the circumstances and move away from their homes in search of something to put in their stomach. This develops to be a very severe case whereby it causes an excessive stress among the children an unreasonable case and recalibration on how they will leave the ordinary life like the other children thus leading them to psychological and educational welfare hence leaving them into the world of confusion.

When we focus on the social effect of unemployment, the lack of employment causes an enormous reliance on government support. When peoples are not working, this increases economic stress in the fields of social programs and taxpayers since the government earns its revenue through taxation, therefore if there are fewer people working, it means that the rate of government income will be very low because there are fewer people who are paying the taxes (Taylor, 2002). This leads to a very great deal of public stress when it comes to inquiring job status on mass scales that can generate a drop in user spending causing a smaller amount of economic growth.

another social effect of unemployment is that the rate of poverty grows higher, the rate of schooling goes down, the price of housing goes down too, and also there become a very few accession to services and public transportation, hence limiting the employment charges and moving the social economic into the ground. The occupational network also gets affected by the coworkers who have lost their jobs through being dismissed for no good reason, whereby they work under pressure fearing that they might be the next character to be fired from their jobs too (Komarovsky, 2004). They will suffer from their anxiety that they may soon get fired once they fail to perform the same job their coworkers had failed to carry out. Those who were lucky to maintain their positions in their midst of economizing may suffer from comparable physical and emotional effects to their fellow workers who had lost their jobs before.

In conclude, it is true that beyond the urgent financial concern related to unemployment, those who are unemployed are weighed down by many other factors. According to the research which was done by an American Psychological Association, the people who are not employed face the double incidence of psychological problems when compared to the individuals who are comfortably used (United State, 1982). Certainly, the standard of the job determines so much in personal health since there is no more thinking on who is supposed to feed and how to feed the entire family. In addition, the longer one stays out of employment, the more difficult it becomes to secure another job.

References

Taylor, R., & Saunders, P. (2002). The price of prosperity: The economic and social costs of unemployment. Sydney: Univ. of New South Wales Press.

United States. (1982). Unemployment: Its causes and effects : hearing before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, October 20, 1982, Janesville, Wis. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.

Komarovsky, M. (2004). The unemployed man and his family: The effect of unemployment upon the status of the man in fifty-nine families. Walnut Creek, Calif. [u.a.: Altamira Press.

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Cause and Effect Prewriting Worksheet

Students, use this worksheet to think about the three scenarios for Assignment 3.

Do not conduct research for this exercise. Use your own knowledge to fill this form out.

Try filling it out for each of the three options for Assignment 3.

Once you considered all these points for the three topic choices you will see which topic you actually know more about and feel more comfortable writing; then select that topic for your Assignment 3 essay.

Prewriting Exercise for Assignment 3.1 Cause and Effect Essay

Cause 1 = Loss of employment or work

Cause 2 = health, Stability issues

Economic Impact

1. Family will be suffering physiologically.

2. Changes in lifestyles.

Impact on the People

1. Stress, mental problems, anxiety.

2. Depreciating value of self-worth.