This study is an attempt to investigate trade–labor market linkages in Pakistan. Our main hypothesis that trade … 1970/71–2000/01 for 22 selected manufacturing industries in Pakistan. We use ordinary least squares to estimate models in … labor-demand elasticity as a result of trade liberalization in Pakistan’s manufacturing sector. Nor does the study find …

world. Pakistan has adopted trade liberalization policies since the late 1980s with the same expectations. This study has … to four measures of economic development: per capita GDP, income inequality, poverty and employment over the period from … employment positively but per capita GDP and income distribution negatively. However,it has not affected poverty in any way. The …