Estimating Uganda's exportable labour using a new pro-poor index of unemployment

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Title:	Estimating Uganda's exportable labour using a new pro-poor index of unemployment
Author:	Bakunda, Geoffrey
Year:	2010
Periodical:	Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775)
Volume:	26
Issue:	2
Period:	June
Pages:	61-75
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:	Uganda East Africa
Subjects:	labour force unemployment labour migration Economics, Commerce Foreign workers Emigration and immigration--Government policy Employment in foreign countries
External link:	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eastern_africa_social_science_research_review/v026/26.2.bakunda.pdf
Abstract:	This paper reviews recent evidence suggesting the need for many African countries to expand labour exports so as to benefit from increased remittance inflows. Export of labour has continued to be viewed as brain drain with a general lack of sufficient data on what exactly constitutes exportable labour. The paper estimates Uganda's exportable labour using a new unemployment index that draws from the model of N. Kakwani and H.H. Son (2006). It finds that Uganda's exportable labour is more than twice the current pool of Ugandan emigrants and is constituted by mainly unskilled casual workers plus the increasing number of graduate unemployed. Policy implications are drawn to harness this substantial labour resource through gainful employment abroad. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]