The Unemployment rate in Tunisia during the second quarter of the current year was 15.4%, bringing the number of unemployed to 634 thousand, including about 350 thousand from university degree holders.
The unemployment rate in 2010 was 13 percent, before it worsened to current levels. The State’s plans over the past years have not been able to reduce the unemployment and create new job opportunities, despite the promises made to the unemployed people especially coming from poor backgrounds.
Every year, at least 70,000 new graduates from universities and vocational training centers flock to the Tunisian labor market, and despite the high unemployment rate, a number of specialists assert that the sectors of electronic industries, household appliances, blacksmithing, welding lack more than 10,000 specialized labor in these fields. Whereas, the construction and public works sector needs at least 50,000 specialized workers that the Tunisian Labor System lacks and therefore it seeks to compensate them through the African labor.
Source: (Asharq Al-Awsat, Edited)
