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Short-Term Employment Functions in Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan

Author(s) -

Karamat Ali

Publication year - 1978

Publication title -

the pakistan development review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154

H-Index - 26

ISSN - 0030-9729

DOI - 10.30541/v17i3pp.333-344

Subject(s) - manufacturing sector , manufacturing , business , product (mathematics) , labour economics , economics , mathematics , geometry , marketing

The manufacturing sector has played an important role in theeconomic development of Pakistan. The main indicator of industrialgrowth—the percentage share of manufacturing in Gross NationalProduct—has been increasing. However, the percentage of employment inmanufacturing has decreased. "The share of manufacturing in GNP hasincreased from 8.1 percent in 1950 to 16.0 percent in 1968. Butemployment in manufacturing sector declined from 15.0 percent of totalemployment to 14.3 percent in 1965 [5, p.212].

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