Labour mobility and local employment: building a local employment base from labour mobility?

Population Labour Force and Employment

At the time of independence in 1947, 32.5 million people lived in Pakistan. By 2006-07, the population is estimated to have reached 156.77 million. Thus in roughly three generations, Pakistan’s population has increased by 124.27 million or has grown at an average rate of 2.6 percent per annum. While Pakistan has more mouths to feed, more families to house, more children to educate, and more peo...

The Role of Employment and Labour

a. Employment, and the quality of employment, decent work, is crucial for poverty reduction and in achieving growth with equity and pro-poor growth. The link between economic growth, employment and poverty reduction is thus a process in which output growth induces an increase in productive and remunerative employment, which, in turn, leads to an increase in the incomes of the poor and a reducti...

Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

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Employment Mobility Laws and Competition

Labour Market Adjustment: Evidence on Interstate Labour Mobility

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