Evaluating the Impacts of the Current Economic Slowdown on (Un)employment in Vietnam

Cuong Nguyen, Pham Thai Hung () and Tung Phung
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Pham Thai Hung: Indochina Research & Consulting (IRC), Vietnam.

No 1, Working Papers from Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN), Vietnam

Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of the current economic slowdown on employment generation and unemployment in Vietnam. The study reports that as the country has experienced a slowdown, there would be an employment shortfall of around half million jobs in 2009. And if the growth prospect of 2010 is not improved compared to that of 2009, Vietnam would encounter a shortfall of more than one million jobs in 2010. As a consequence, our projected unemployment rates are higher than that of 2008 by nearly one and a half percentage point in 2009 and two percentage points in 2010. The findings are relatively robust under different assumptions of the economic growth. The study provides a somewhat different outlook from what has been suggested by the media - which has tended to highlight jobs losses taking place in certain parts of the country. The results of our analysis suggest that government efforts to stave off the effects of the crisis should have been focused more strongly on employment and job creation

Keywords: Economic slowdown; employment; employment elasticity; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E17 E24 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2010
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