it is for women and for young people aged unemployment plays a major role in social discontent so tackling unemployment and especially youth unemployment is a key priority for the libyan authorities a jobcreating private sector and economic diversification will be needed to absorb the influx of new labour force entrants and improve labour market indicators currently the private sector is not large or strong enough to play the job creation role required and the oil sector although a major contributor to gdp is not a major employer accounting for only of employment workers imf