A Comparative Analysis of the Employment Situation in Bangladesh. Potential Sectors and Required Policies for Employment

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Miscellaneous, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: This paper seeks to provide an understanding of the employment situation in Bangladesh analyzing potential sectors and required policies for employment. The study found the vulnerable situation of job opportunity and underemployment with gender and region specific discrimination. The findings also showed that small and medium enterprises (Smes), ICT Sector, vocational training and overseas employment and employment in RMG sector were potentials sectors of employment opportunities for Bangladesh. The study follows an analytical research. Data were collected form secondary sources. Sources of data were several government conducted survey specially 'Labor Force Survey 2013'with different published journals, books and reports. Data were also collected from different concerned non-government organizations. This paper has used simple statistical tables and graphs to analyze the issues. Bangladesh is a country with 163 million people where employment is the major source of income and livelihood for most of the economic active people. The labor force is growing in Bangladesh at higher rate than the rate of growth in population. In 2015 Government of Bangladesh claimed that the labor force participation rate was 57.1 percent with 4.3 percent unemployment rate which was about 2.6 million in number. As the country is experiencing its first demographic dividend these young population demand both quality and quantity opportunities in the employment sector.

Department of Population Sciences University of Dhaka