400,000 youth rather jobless than working

Today 2008 04 08 a radio station morning discussion was on 400,000 youth who rather sit at home jobless then accepting the jobs offered to them.

You get it right ! They have been offered jobs and they turn them down for no apparent reasons and preferred to sit at home instead.

At the end the radio DJ basically sum it up not favor on the unemployed and basically asked them to get their ass out of their home and accept the job first no matter what.

I called in and shared a view that there is a possibility a handful out of these unemployed may be the smart ones. World economy has changed that they may just sit at home, not doing much and yet earn an income that is enough for them to stay in their comfort zone. Sometimes just by chatting with friends, making some phone calls or even just browsing internet.

After that I dig out some facts on this topic, basically there are 11 millions jobs and 333,000 unemployed at end of 2007, data updated as of 31 March 2008. (http://www.statistics.gov.my/english/keystats.htm)

So first of all, the data of what the DJ announced may have fault. Where she got 400,000 and why ALL of them are because they turned the jobs down ?