Unemployment And Its Economic And Social Contributions

Unemployment and its economic and social contributions

Introduction

Unemployment, also known as unemployment, is the situation in which people are who are age, ability and desire to work or can get a job.

The work, in addition to contributing an economic or salary level, we can also consider it in most cases as a source of psychological and/or social welfare and balance.

When a person looks for a job for the first time or has worked for years and suddenly he is in an unemployment situation, he can experience a series of emotional, psychological and social transformations.

This is stated by the American Psychological Association (APA) “unemployed people run twice the risk that people used to suffer psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, under psychological well -being and poor self – esteem”.

Developing

Phases in the loss of employment

Generally, the first reaction to the arrival of unemployment is usually perplexity, with a mixture of skepticism and fear. Similar to a shock situation in which there are feelings of disorientation and confusion, accompanied by a sense of failure and inability to make future plans.

Later, it follows a recovery phase, characterized by unreal optimism, having the impression of "being on vacation", which implies that the person is not yet considered as unemployed. Thus, the loss of employment is perceived as something temporary.

But if the situation is not reversed, there is a time when the person can no longer live their situation as a vacation and assaults him the fear that his unemployment status will extend over time. This is when he begins to make more incisive efforts to find work, obtaining the first serious experiences of rejection.

When all efforts do not work, the individual feels pessimistic and can present symptoms of anxiety, with periods of melancholy and irritability and in many cases with the appearance of psychophysiological disorders. In this phase the social family support and the ability to face the person is crucial.

Subsequently, the recognition of the unemployed identity with all its psychological characteristics takes place. Fatalist ideas arrive, while the job search activity is reduced, without having a successful prospects. Thus, the individual sees unemployment as a personal failure instead of social, which leads to isolation.

With the passage of time, social experience looks impoverished, due to the change in the structure of everyday life and by the tendency to depart from social life, feeling ashamed and insecure. Situation that is often aggravated by the indifference and contempt of the others that consider it weak. Thus, it is not uncommon for the person to introduce into a depressive spiral, in which active coping splash.

Stages of the psychopathological process of unemployment as a function of time

The stages of the psychopathological process of unemployment marked depending on the time in which the subject is unemployed are:

• The first 6 months.

People are going through a non -acute crisis where the usual symptoms are irritation, insomnia, changing spirit, anguish for the future … It is an era when unemployed does not yet assume their unemployed condition.

• In the next six months (one year from the moment of unemployment)

The symptoms described are aggravated, there may be episodes of aggressiveness, shame and guilt.

• At 18 months from unemployment

There is an adaptation phase that is characterized by depressive spirit expressed in feelings of inferiority, lack of future, sadness, failure and decrease in hope.

• 24 months after being unemployed

The subject goes through an adjustment stage and is assumed as part of personal identity to be unemployed, a generalized apathy appears in terms of job search.

Real unemployment cases

• Case 1

Lack of employment and insecurity pushes more Ecuadorians to return to Spain.

Spain has not ceased to be on the radar of Ecuadorians who seek to emigrate due to job stability and unify the family. Although it is no longer a massive emigration, such as the one that occurred at the end of the 90s and extended to a lesser extent until 2008.

My aunt Verónica Guaña told me that I worked in small works, housewife and other times I did not get anything since the country’s economic situation is not very good because of the overpopulation we are living and those is the reason why it is not foundjob.

His greatest concern is the diabetes he suffers, but he comforts that medical care is better and constantly receives medications.

Since it was six months ago stable in a public hospital in the care of the elderly.

Now from Spain you can keep your children and her husband who currently still does not find a stable job.

My aunt, being one more unemployed in our country, had aggressive and depressive behavior at the same time.

She is at an age between the forties and 50 years of age, it is for that reason that it showed a great psychological deterioration and depressive feeling. Although unemployment is a negative experience independent of age, if compared between different age groups, it shouldNot achieving a job.

It is in this age group where greater family responsibilities are given and where the loss of employment has the loss of labor social relations, and greater destructuring in the organization of time.

• Case # 2

Loss of employment due to cheap labor.

For 10 years, Geovanny Chipantaxi my uncle was mechanical in the Chevrolet in Quito, until March 11 was separated from the institution, despite being a very responsible collaboration in his work.

But since then he has sent resumes to different places, without obtaining an answer. "Getting a job in the private sector is very complicated," said my uncle and ensures that the limited job options that exist offer low remuneration.

And this was the reason why my company had to leave since currently companies look for foreign people such as Venezuelans who provide cheap labor.

It is more than curious that in a country that needs quality jobs to combat poverty, the presence of “cheap” labor is invoked as a panacea that will make millionaire foreign investments arrive and translate into factories and companies that generate wealth.

And it is curious not because investments, factories, companies and jobs are not needed, but because an economy with depressed wages, high informality and millions of workers who survive in precariousness need strategies to improve people’s income and not only to give them apoorly paid occupation.

At that time my uncle earned around $ 1200 and the person who replaced him entered with a salary of $ 500 – $ 600. At this point it can clearly realize that companies seek collaborators who charge less to exploit them more.

There are people who prefer to give work to foreigners than those in our country.

Geovanny when losing his job was very affected, that is why the callus in depression since he felt a person who was worth less than that he was hired in turn also suffered an isolation with his own family.

• Case #3

Mobbing or workplace harassment that lead directly to unemployment

My cousin Nataly Guaña went to work as a cashier in De Prati, which is a company dedicated to having several chains of department stores in Ecuador whose main line is clothing and home products.

This person entered for a test period and after two months his immediate boss proposed that if he wanted the work of an indefinite hired, she would have to sleep with him.

She obviously refused since very apart from being married and having children was respected as a woman, hearing a no for an answer told him that he would make life impossible within the organization and that he does not know what awaits him.

It is there when workplace or moral harassment began at work, also known as mobbing, is the situation in which a worker or group of workers perform a series of psychological violent actions systematically (at least once a week) For a certain time, on a person in the workplace.

Labor harassment may appear at any time, it affects men and women equally and does not understand work hierarchies.

Mobbing is a form of work stress that is characterized because it does not occur due to causes directly related to work or organization. It has its origin in the relationships between people who are generated among people.

Six months passed and she didn’t stand anymore, she put all her co -workers against her against her, she did not have co -workers everyone did as if she did not know her, and she made her the same question that she had been silver for months.

She had no other alternative than giving up her behavior after leaving the organization was to pass a non -acute crisis where the usual symptoms were irritation, insomnia, changing spirit, anguish for the future for the knowledge that will happen with her now thatIt was left without work and right in times back to classes.

This is a time when unemployed does not yet assume its unemployed condition.

conclusion

For my point of view unemployment in Ecuador is something that will cause a lot of economic instability in the country, and will destroy many families and many young people with dreams to achieve. Unemployment in Ecuador has grown a lot and will continue to grow if politics and laws continue as they are.

Lately it has been seen that there is a lot.

This gives a lot of sadness for Ecuadorian people, we have to look.

Also thanks to unemployment, there is drug trafficking since young people who do not find work are dedicated to that illegal action that leads them to bad roads and can even lead them to death, so we have to look for and find new sources of work so thatFuture generations of our country are not dedicated to these illegal things that can take them to prison and even death.