More than two decades of economic planning in Pakistan have not succeeded at least in containing unemployment within tolerable limits. Even the People’s Works Programme introduced as a “crash” programme to get the situation under control has failed so far to achieve its major objective.

According to the latest census of April 1, 1971, India had a total population of about 547 million, of which 184 million were the potential labour force (i.e., all employed persons and all the unemployed, taken together). As the population growth is still accelerating, it is foreseen that the...

Labour force structure can be regarded as an important factor in analysing employment and unemployment problems in a developing economy. Specially in a country where data on the employment situation are very limited, characteristics regarding the structure of the labour force contribute a great...