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China faces talent crisis as median population age expected to rise to 45
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 26 (ANI): Demographic decline and a fast-ageing population have become twin factors that have not only led to the shrinking of Chinese labour force but also leading to a decrease in the talent pool - factors that are being seen as the biggest obstacles to China's econ
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Flexible workplaces and work hours, WFH ecosystem need of future: PM Modi
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): Highlighting the role of the labour force in the development of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said flexible workplaces, a work-from-home ecosystem and flexible work hours are the need of the future.
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Labour force has huge role in realising dream of developed India: PM Modi
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India's labour force has a huge role to play in realizing dreams and aspirations to build a developed India and said the future may require flexible workplaces, work from home ecosystem and flexi work hour
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Unemployment rate shows declining trend: Govt to RS
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI): Available Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data indicated that the unemployment rate has a declining trend in the country, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameswar Teli told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
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China offers women perks for having babies amid 'severe' demographic crisi
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 8 (ANI): In a bid to increase its population and further help the country's labour force, China is giving incentives such as tax and housing credits, educational benefits and even cash to encourage women to have more children.
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Enforced birth control measures driving human rights violation in China: R
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): In order to put a barricade on the receding population, the Communist Party of China have tried to increase the birth rate in the country in a quest to increase the size of the labour force and restore the advantages of cheap labour by initially switching to a
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China may turn to forced pregnancy to tackle negative population growth: R
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 10 (ANI): To tackle the decline in birth rate that is foreseen to shrink the labour force in China dramatically in the coming years, it is highly likely that the country may turn to forced pregnancy and outright force couples to have children.
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Centre rubbishes reports of Indians losing hope for work, says they are fa
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 26 (ANI): Ministry of Labour and Employment on Tuesday said that making an inference that half of the working-age population has lost hope for work is "factually incorrect", adding that the labour force and workforce in the country increased during 2017-18 to 2019-20
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Majority of unemployed youth have criminal records, says study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
California [US], February 20 (ANI): It isn't uncommon to open newspapers nowadays and see the shocking rise in crime rates. More so, crimes committed by young people. According to a new RAND Corporation Study, more than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arr
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Pak's 31 per cent youths unemployed: Report
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 7 (ANI): Unemployment in Pakistan is making headlines again as 31 per cent of youths in the country are currently unemployed, as per the report released by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics on Sunday.
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Pakistan's unemployment rate jumps to 6.9 per cent in 2018-19
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Pakistan's joblessness has jumped from 5.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.9 per cent in 2018-19, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday.
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Study: Direct deposit leads to 'digital empowerment' for women workers in
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 4 (ANI): A study led by economists at Yale University, giving greater digital control over their wages to women in India's Madhya Pradesh led them to enter the labour force and also liberalised their beliefs about working women.
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