Statistical Service directed to produce labour figures

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• YB 13 years ago

  We don't have a large unemployment in Ghana. I guess it might be between 15% to 20%. We have large number of people working on a daily basis but not counted as working because they don't pay national taxes. We must all agree ...
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  We don't have a large unemployment in Ghana. I guess it might be between 15% to 20%. We have large number of people working on a daily basis but not counted as working because they don't pay national taxes. We must all agree that people working in the informal markets are duly working and must be recognized as such. Those men and women who are working at Makola, Central, and other markets must be given their due. We are only counting the official and formal markets to our own detriment. In USA a person working one hour as a paid employee or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid worker in his/her family business is counted as employed. As unemployed a person who during the week before the survey is conducted had no employment and made specific efforts to find a job will be counted as unemployed. What the government of Ghana has to do is to define what is a job; define who is unemployed; define full time and part time jobs; our official unemployment rate; define the discouraged workers; etc. What we are doing is not the right thing to do.

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• Sankofa 13 years ago

  'Unemployment is also rife among university graduates, with more than half of the graduates who leave the country’s universities not finding a job two years after their national service --and one-fifth are without a job for ...
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  'Unemployment is also rife among university graduates, with more than half of the graduates who leave the country’s universities not finding a job two years after their national service --and one-fifth are without a job for a third year.'
  
  How did the reporter arrive at these figures if we have no unemployment data?

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• DAN 13 years ago

  graduate groups have said before they cant get jobs...old people must retire and move to pension..Current retirement age for old people in usa is 65 years and for those of us born in 60's now 67 years..those people have to mo ...
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  graduate groups have said before they cant get jobs...old people must retire and move to pension..Current retirement age for old people in usa is 65 years and for those of us born in 60's now 67 years..those people have to move to pension and or take part time jobs!

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