Rapid ageing of the population, with a shrinking labour force, will impose pressure on public expenditure on pensions as the number of retirees increases while the number of contributors to pension funds becomes smaller.

Labour laws do not yet provide cover to the entire Pakistani labour force.

Table 3.2 Gender structure of labour force

Representation of women in the Labour Force

a From labour force surveys, household surveys, population censuses or labour related establishment surveys.

Previous Labour Force Surveys did not address this issue.

Pakistan Labour Force Survey 2001 2002 released in late 2003.

Integration into the European labour strategy would be yet another step towards increasing female participation in the labour force.

The Female Labour Force Participation while still quite low, is increasing.

As in the framework of the new demographic data the economically active population of the European Union is continually shrinking, it has become evident that, if the European Union wishes to remain competitive, it must utilize fully the totality of its labour force implementing policies to facilitate, in particular, groups which face difficulties in their integration to the labour market.

He noted that the need for a labour force to pick cotton had prevented Uzbekistan from ratifying International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on child labour.

4 Employing more of the labour force, especially women working from home.

The ILO also helped the Ministry of Labour to strengthen its labour market information system and to create an employment task force.

China s Incredible Shrinking Economy

China s Shrinking Trade Surplus

Workers without social protection now comprise the vast majority of the urban labour force.

(c) Organizing field testing of a revised labour force survey questionnaire in selected countries

Labour markets should also respond to the needs of older workers, who will become an important component of the labour force in years to come.

Owing to demographic pressure and women entering the labour force, the region has one of the highest rates of new entrants into the labour market.

Of all women aged 15 to 45 in the labour force, 18.2 are single mothers.

As stated earlier, the participation of rates of women in the labour force are increasing.

Just as lenders did not force money on the public before the crisis, so now they cannot force heavily indebted households to borrow, or businesses to seek loans to expand production when markets are flat or shrinking.

And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.

With a shrinking labor force, the standard estimate for Japan in 2012 that is, before Abenomics had output per employed worker growing by 3.08 year on year.

However, his options are shrinking rapidly.

While the effects of the Act cannot be isolated, an analysis of women's participation in the labour force since 1996 indicates that there has been an increase in labour force participation and an improvement in workplace flexibility for women.

A number of factors may be responsible for the relatively low female labour force participation rate.

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

In April 2013, unemployment was at 8.2 (or 6.7 following the ILO definition) of the labour force.

Bananas and other agriculture dominate Dominica's economy, and nearly one third of the labour force works in agriculture.

15.7 of women participants in the labour force are those who are engaged in home based earning activities.

Liberalization of the labour market would need to focus on the effect of the declining labour force, productivity, migration and the adaptability of older workers to the present working environment.

With no industrial good that still requires a large scale labor force and the communications and services industries unable to fill the gap employment is shrinking and economic growth is stagnating.

The shrinking sectors include the labour intensive upstream stages of the production process, where jobs have been outsourced to other countries a phenomenon that is neither apparent to customers nor reflected in statistics on foreign direct investment.

The labour force consists of more than four million people, among whom women hold slightly more jobs than men.

The annual average Ontario labour force participation rate of 68.4 percent in 2003 was the highest level since 1991.

Unemployment on the continent is extremely high and underemployment is rampant, affecting 40 per cent of the labour force.

Some government programs are shrinking from lack of demand.

At the current moment, economic well being is shrinking.

Such work was particularly helpful for women seeking to return to the labour force after an absence for maternity leave.

Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

Distance is shrinking. Geographical barriers no longer provide easy protection.

The ever shrinking old generation of Saudi kings in waiting.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

The reason is that other financial resources are available (i.e. under municipal labour market policy and grants from the European Social Fund (ESF)) for the direct promotion of labour force participation and economic independence.