Labour Regulation and Employment Patterns*

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

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language – English or French – with a summary in the other. The opinions expressed and arguments employed here are...

International Trade And Employment In Labour- Intensive Sectors In Iran: The Case Of Carpet- Weavers

Does labour market training and subsidised employment reduce unemployment? An evaluation of the employment effects of labour market training and subsidised employment in Finland 1990-95 DRAFT

In Finnish labour market policy, labour market training and subsidised employment are seen as the key methods. The aim of the paper is to evaluate effectiveness of labour market training (LMT) and subsidised employment (SE) in Finland 1990 and 1992. The focus is placed on the individual employment impact at the micro-level: LMT and SE impacts on subsequent employment (number of employment month...