Domino effect of Unemployment

THE DOMINO EFFECT

OF

UNEMPLOYMENT

By: Jufilouz E. Pacatang

What is Domino Effect?

: a cumulative effect produced when one event initiates a succession of similar events.

What is Unemployment?

: the state of being unemployed: involuntary idleness of workers.

Causes of Unemployment:

Some of the causes of unemployment in the Philippines include a lack of educated workers and a suppressed economy. Other causes include a large working population in a relatively small area with little industry. The unemployment rate in the Philippines has been high for many years.

PHILIPPINES UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

Unemployment Rate in Philippines increased to 7.50 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from 7.10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Unemployment Rate in Philippines is reported by the The National Statistics Office (NSO). Philippines Unemployment Rate averaged 9.09 Percent from 1994 until 2013, reaching an all time high of 13.90 Percent in March of 2002 and a record low of 6.30 Percent in September of 2007. In Philippines, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force. This page contains - Philippines Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. 2013-09-08

Philippines jobless rate increased to 7.5 percent in April from 7.1 percent reported in January and 6.9 percent in April of 2012. The unemployment rate was pushed up by job losses in the agricultural sector due to extreme weather conditions.

The employment rate reached 92.5 percent, down from 93.1 percent a year ago, due to a drop in the number of agricultural workers (down by 624 thousand workers).

The total number of employed persons in April of 2013 is estimated at 37 819 million compared to 37 840 million in April of 2012. While employment in the agriculture sector had dropped, employment in the industry sector and services sector grew by 3.8 percent and by 1.9 percent, respectively.

Laborers and unskilled workers comprised the biggest group making up one-third (32.6 percent) of the total employed persons; 57.5 percent of the total employed population were wage and salary workers and 63.5 percent were working full time.  

There were more males (61.4 percent) than females (38.6 percent) among the unemployed. The age group 15-24 made up 48.2 percent of the total unemployed, while the age group 25-34, 30.9 percent.

By education, about one-fifth (21.3 percent) of the unemployed were college graduates, 14.6 percent were college undergraduates, and 31.7 percent were high school graduates.

The number of under-employed persons in April of 2013 was estimated at 7 252 million placing the under-employment rate at 19.2 percent, slightly down from 19.3 percent a year ago.

Domino Effects of Unemployment:

OVERPOPULATION

Why and how?

Unemployment can cause overpopulation because when people have nothing to do, they will seek pleasure and by that they would rather “go and multiply” than work hard looking for a job. Thus overpopulation occurs.

POVERTY

Why and how?

And when unemployment leads to overpopulation, overpopulation causes poverty.

What is Poverty?

: the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions

 

We always blame our Government why Philippines become poorer. The truth is we are over populated that is why we are still in the third world country. If only the population can be controlled we are not far from those progressive countries like China. Look how China becomes a progressive country now? We should not blame only our leader on how they lead our country but people of the Philippines should realize that we are a part of this problem. Our economy is still on the journey of doing things that we fight for.

PROSTITUTION

Why and how?

From unemployment to overpopulation to poverty, poverty can lead to prostitution. Poor people are most likely to be involved with this kind of act or practice, in this way they easily have sex with their customer for a certain amount.

What is Prostitution?

: the act or practice of engaging in promiscuous sexual relations especially for money.

A Brief Historical Overview of Prostitution in the Philippines

PRE-COLONIZATION PERIOD
When the Spanish came they chronicled some pre-existing sexual practices by Filipinos which they considered lewd, vicious and perverse. They observed that society did not value either virginity or monogamous marriages. The Spanish chroniclers wrote that virginity was, in fact, believed to be a hindrance to marriage and that to reach the place of eternal bliss, women must have lovers. There were males who would even offer their services for initiating women to the sexual act. Unwed mothers did not decrease their chances of marriage. Despite this sexual freedom, most of our ancestors kept monogamous instead of polygamous relationships. There were laws which penalized illicit behavior between men and women, effectively restricting promiscuity and preventing prostitution.

COLONIZATION PERIOD

Spanish Period

The Spaniards preached values of virginity and chastity to the "natives" or Filipinos and condemned their immoral sexual practices. However, they also failed to live out what they preached. They carried out sexual relations with native women outside their marriage resulting in the birth of many Spanish mestizo children. By the 19th century, casas catering to peninsulares (Spaniards), insulares (Philippine-born Spaniards), and indios (native Filipinos) existed in Manila . The casas housed young virgins (usually daughters of peasants sold to cover their parent's debts) to cater mainly to Spanish soldiers and officials.

American Period
The red-light district at the time was the Gardenia Gardens in Sampaloc, where young women were classed according price and housed in different dwellings. The first class house had American and European women, the second class house had the fresh rural natives and mestizas, and the third-class house had older prostitutes with a separate display window showcasing Japanese geishas. During the World War 1 vaudeville, cabarets and lodging houses became popular. The red light district later shifted to Sta. Ana and Lerma where dance floors were divided between the Filipinas and Americans. Prominent society and political figures were said to have patronized these nightspots.

Japanese Period
Following the Japanese invasion, many parents were forced to sell their children, particularly young girls, to Japanese soldiers and wealthy Filipino collaborators. It was at this time that the premier residential section of Manila . Ermita was transformed into a "sprawling Yoshiwara". Many women, including young wives, were also abducted from their homes to serve as "jugun ianfu" or comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army. In the brothel, comfort women usually had to service 10 to 40 soldiers a day, and more on weekends. Many who were infected by venereal disease were treated with large doses of harmful drugs;  others had to undergo forced abortion; many also died in the process of torture and rape.

POST COLONIZATION PERIOD
Soon after WWII, the Philippines signed an agreement with the US to provide for the Americans' "unhampered use" of 23 military facilities all over the country for 99 years. The escalation of regional conflicts in which the US participated saw the influx of weary American soldiers into the bases and subsequent growth of prostitution. With the early termination of the bases after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo the entertainment clubs around these areas slowed down but were later revived by resident foreigners to tourists and local men. The institutionalization of tourism and the increasing number of migrant workers are also contributing factors to the continuing rise of sex slavery in the country.

HIV AND AIDS

Why and how?

Lastly, from unemployment to overpopulation to poverty to prostitution and to HIV AIDS. HIV and AIDS are very rampant to “social workers” like prostitutes who do not have any decent job because they experience unemployment. Not only prostitutes have high risks to being infected but to those who are also engaging themselves with multiple sexual intercourse mainly because they have nothing to do; no work, no jobs.

What is HIV?

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus which infects and destroys helper T cells of the immune system causing the marked reduction in their number that is diagnostic of AIDS.

What is AIDS?

AIDS stands for Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome which is a disease of the human immune system that is characterized cytologically especially by reduction in the numbers of CD4- bearing helper T cells to 20% or less of normal thereby rendering the subject highly vulnerable to life-threatening conditions and that is caused by infection with HIV.

FACTORS THAT COULD INCREASE HIV/AIDS PREVALENCE:

·        Increasing population mobility

·        High rate of IDU(Injecting Drug Users) sharing injecting equipments

·        Poor health seeking behavior

·        Lacks proper information

PHASES OF HIV --- AIDS:

1.     HIV INFECTION(Primary Infection)

2.     WINDOW PERIOD(3-6months)

3.     SEROCONVERSION(6-12months)

4.     ASYMPTOMATIC(5-10years)

5.     HIV RELATED ILLNESSES(Opportunistic Infections)

6.     AIDS

388 new HIV cases discovered in April

By Paolo Romero (The Philippine Star) | Updated June 2, 2013 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - A total of 388 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were discovered nationwide in April alone, or 13 HIV-infected individuals per day, a party-list lawmaker said yesterday.

LPGMA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty, one of the authors of House Bill 6751 proposing amendments to the AIDS Prevention and Control Act, said the new cases include 40 overseas Filipino workers and 32 intravenous drug users.

HIV causes AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS destroys the human body’s immune system and does not have any known cure. However, anti-retroviral therapy can slow down the ailment.

Health authorities become aware of new HIV cases passively because compulsory testing is prohibited by law, with a few exceptions, to discourage acts of discrimination against people living with the virus, Ty said.

Citing statistics from the National Epidemiology Center of the Department of Health, the lawmaker said the 388 new HIV cases recorded in April were 67 percent higher compared to the 233 recorded during the same month in 2012.

He said the April cases – 368 males and 20 females – have a median age of 28 years, with those in the 20 to 29 age group comprising 61 percent.

Except for 32 drug users who were infected due to needle sharing, all new cases acquired the virus through sexual contact, with male-to-male sex accounting for 81 percent, according to Ty.

He said the new cases brought to 1,477 the number of HIV cases reported from January to April this year, or 43 percent higher compared to the 1,032 cases documented during the same period in 2012.

The National HIV and AIDS Registry, which began surveillance of the disease in 1984, now lists an aggregate of 13,179 cases, of which 93 percent or 12,240 cases were contaminated through sexual transmission.

Ty said 8,755 of the cases in the registry, or 66 percent, were reported from 2010 onward.

The Philippines is one of seven countries in the world struggling to cope with rapidly increasing new HIV infections. While the spread of HIV has decreased in many parts of the world, it has been growing at an alarming rate in the Philippines, Armenia, Bangladesh, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, according to the World Health Organization.

HB 6751, which seeks to overhaul the outdated 1998 AIDS Prevention and Control Law, directs the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) to draw up a bold six-year program with specific targets to reverse the average 45 percent annual increase in new HIV cases since 2010.

The PNAC has warned that up to 46,000 Filipinos could be diagnosed with HIV by 2015.

MY REACTION:

POSITIVE: What I made in my blog obviously states the negative effects of unemployment but personally the positive effects of unemployment is Perseverance, when we fail we always make it a point to bounce back. We try again and on the second time we try harder, we do our best to be better, and we always improve because tomorrow is another day.

NEGATIVE: Although we persevere, some people will always be pessimistic. They get discourage easily and when they find a way into making money without getting turned down again they make prostitution an option. Most uneducated people lack the knowledge of doing what they can do without dishonoring themselves that’s why they do what they are not supposed to do.

SUGGESTIONS: Learn to be OPTIMISTIC, always remember that failure is a part of life. Nobody’s perfect and always bear in mind that giving up is not an option.

RECOMMENDATIONS: Start by starting small and slowly as you work hard day by day, your hard work pays off and you become bigger and bigger. As long as you have the patience and attitude to work hard to be the best you can be nothing will be impossible.