The jobless youth conundrum

Challenging times: One common fact is that people with degrees tend to be better paid than those without a paper qualification but youth unemployment is on the rise.

Khazanah says there is an uptrend of unemployment among those aged between 20 and 29

AFTER being laid off following the closure of the company he worked for, Joe (not his real name) started to drive a car of one of the ride-hailing companies. The 30-year-old engineering graduate makes a decent salary in his current job but talked about the difficulties of his friends who studied engineering.