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Title Estimating Uganda's Exportable Labour Using a New Pro-poor Index of Unemployment
Full text http://ajol.info/index.php/eassrr/article/view/55758
Date 2010
Author(s) G Bakunda
Abstract This paper reviews recent evidence suggesting the need for many African countries to expand labour exports so as to benefit from increased remittance inflows. Export of labour has continued to be viewed as brain drain with a general lack of sufficient data on what exactly constitutes exportable labour. The paper estimates Uganda's exportable labour using a new Unemployment Index that draws from Kakwani and Son Model (2006). It finds that Uganda's exportable labour is more than twice the current pool of Ugandan emigrants and is constituted by mainly the unskilled casual workers plus the increasing graduate unemployed. Policy implications are drawn to harness this substantial labour resource through gainful employment abroad.Keywords: Unemployment, Uganda, labour export
Subject(s) Unemployment, Uganda, labour export
Language en
Publisher Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review
Type of publication Peer-reviewed Article
Format application/pdf
Source Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review; Vol 26, No 2 (2010)
Rights Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the journal.
Repository Africa - African Journals OnLine (AJOL)
Added to C-A: 2010-08-26;09:03:15