Facts and figures never lie: Cambodia's zero unemployment

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Facts and figures never lie: Cambodia's zero unemployment

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Cambodia has almost no unemployment according to this latest report in collaboration with the ILO...
The Labor Ministry proclaimed yesterday that unemployment was nearly eradicated in Cambodia after a recent study showed that less than one percent of citizens remained without jobs.

Labor Minister Ith Samheng said in the Tripartite Annual Review of Decent Work Country Program for Cambodia 2016-2018 yesterday morning that 99.3 percent of Cambodians were employed, which was akin to there being zero unemployment in the kingdom.

“The data of Cambodian people who have jobs is very high, so we can say almost everyone has a job. All that’s left is only 0.7 percent who do not have work,” he said.

This was a marginal increase from an International Labor Organization (ILO) annual world employment outlook released in January, which showed Cambodia’s unemployment rate as being 0.5 percent...

The report, which was a collaborative effort between the ministry, ILO and various other labor groups, did not detail how they classified employed and employed Cambodians nor did it reveal its methodology.

However, a local media organization quoted a 2013 ILO working paper as saying that anyone with paid employment for one hour a week, or those working without pay at a family business or farm, are deemed as being employed.

The report also quoted political analyst Ou Virak as saying that this methodology, which is employed in developed countries to measure the status of the job market, is ineffective in developing nations...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37336/ ... -minister/
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Re: Facts and figures never lie: Cambodia's zero unemployment

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Wow that's impossible, whenever we or other manufacturers post a job vacancy bulletin we get hundreds of applicants a day.


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Wow that's impossible, whenever we or other manufacturers post a job vacancy bulletin we get hundreds of applicants a day.


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Re: Facts and figures never lie: Cambodia's zero unemployment

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callmemark wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:43 pm Wow that's impossible, whenever we or other manufacturers post a job vacancy bulletin we get hundreds of applicants a day


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It could be that all/most that apply are still studying at school or uni so not classed as unemployed. As a matter of interest,, how many are qualified for the jobs that you are referring to.
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Biggest load of horseshit I've ever heard...unless one takes all the whores into consideration also.
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certainly in their tiny minds they believe even glue huffing street urchin beggers have employment. I suspect the only way they can stay in "government" is to be delusional.
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