Question 1: What is LMIA?
Labour market information is what the term suggests: information about labour markets. This includes information about employment and jobs, wages, salaries and employment conditions; skills; where...
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Question 2: Why is it needed?
Labour markets are never static. People enter and leave the labour market continuously, and even in a more or less ‘permanent’ position like a regular government job the content of the work is bound to...
Question 3 : What is Objective of the LMIA?
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To provide up-to-date and timely Labour Market Information and Analysis disaggregated by sex, age etc.
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To provide information based on internationally accepted concepts and key labour...
Question 4 : What type of tools does LMIA use?
The LMIA uses two sets of tools, namely analytical and reporting tools.
(a) The approach that has been adopted regarding the analytical tools is to start with the...
Question 5 : What has LMIA achieved so far?
- Publications
- Establishment of LMI database...
Question 6 : Who is driving LMIA in Pakistan?
The Labour Market Information and Analysis (LMIA) project is an initiative of Ministry of Labour Manpower Pakistanis, Government of Pakistan with the active assistance of...
Question 7 : What does LMIA intend to do in future?
- Distribution of LMIA reports “Pakistan employment trends”
- Improvement and upgrading of database...
Question 8 : Who will be benefitted from LMIA?
In general the wide variety of users of LMIA, including individual employers, employers' and workers' organizations, Government planners, training institutions, international...
Question 9 : What information do reports entitled Pakistan Employment Trends provide?
Pakistan’s Employment Trends reports, which are produced by the Labour Market Information and...
Question 10 : What is decent work?
It is work that gives people the opportunity to earn enough for themselves and their families to escape poverty, not just temporarily but permanently. But the concept is not limited to...
Question 11: How is LMIA linked to decent work?
The LMIA unit with its institutional arrangements uses analytical and reporting tools as inputs into the production of Labour Market Information and Analysis. LMIA, together...
Question 12 : What are the dimensions of decent work?
- Opportunities for work:
The need for all persons who want work to be able to find work...
Question 13: What are decent work indicators?
The ILO has developed decent Work Indicators for Asia and the Pacific which are as follows:
Rights at work...
Recent Publications
- April, 2010
Faisalabad Employment Trends (Women)
Recognition of the need to improve the.... - April, 2010
Faisalabad Employment Trends (Youth)
The demographic transition underway.... - April, 2010
Faisalabad Employment Trends (Skills)
Labour market information is an ...... - April, 2010
Faisalabad Employment Trends (General)
The present publication is based on......