Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors Affecting Labor Force Participation in Pakistan

Mumtaz Hussain, Sofia Anwar and Shaoan Huang

Journal of Sustainable Development, 2016, vol. 9, issue 4, 70

Abstract: Labor Force Participation is the indication of relative supply of labor in the labor market and it is also very useful for the formulation of employment and human resource development. The main purpose of present study is to explore the demographic factors that directly or indirectly influence the labor force participation. The study is based on Micro-level data on different socioeconomic and demographic factors that have a deep effect on the labor force participation in Pakistan. The collected set of information of about 1,43,587 frequencies of 36,400 households was used in this study from the Labor Force Survey of Pakistan 2008-09. The research concluded that the level of education, training, age, location, residential period and being male has positive and significant impact on labor force participation.

Date: 2016
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