Population, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries

Hilde Wander

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1987, vol. 492, issue 1, 69-79

Abstract: Over the past thirty years, almost all developing countries have been suffering from severe underutilization of their rapidly growing work force, manifest in the first place in various forms of underemployment rather than in open unemployment. Prospective trends in the working-age population suggest an even steeper increase in labor supply and respectively rising employment problems for some time ahead. Policies promoting economic growth have proved insufficient to solve the problems. New strategies are called for, aimed explicitly at mobilizing the ill-used labor potentials for developmental purposes. This article consists of three parts. The first one gives a general outline of the relationships between population, labor supply, and employment, while the second one deals with empirical trends and structural changes in labor supply in the second half of this century. Both analyses bring forth the arguments for comprehensive approaches to the employment problem, which are presented in part three.

Date: 1987
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