Provisional Estimates of Length of Working life in Pakistan

Lee Bean
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Lee Bean: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Karachi.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1967, vol. 7, issue 2, 247-259

Abstract: Life table techniques have been used fairly widely to determine the working life of the labour force or work-life expectancy [6; 7; 8; 18; 23]. The length of working life in developing countries, however, is often unknown or estimates are based upon very rigid assumptions which are not realistic given the conditions of labour in such countries. For example, Mortara's international comparisons are based upon the assumption that the activity ages are always 1:5 to 60 years only {6] .. Such an assumption leads to a low estimate of work-life expectancy in countries such as Pakistan where the lower age of large scale labour force participation is, at a minimum, age 10 as officially defined in the labour force statistics and where individuals apparently maintain some connection with the labour force during latter years of life.

Date: 1967
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