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Skills Mapping for Selected Industries of Special Economic Zones: Job Creation for Unemployed Youth of Balochistan (Article)

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  • Aziz Ahmed

    (Professor, Department of Economics, Balochistan University of Information, Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta.)

  • Syed Munawar Shah

    (Professor, Department of Economics, Balochistan University of Information, Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta.)

Abstract

We examined identifying the TVET institutional framework, mapping TVET skills, and estimating the available and potential jobs creation by selected nine industries of special economic and export processing zones (SEZs/EPZs) of Balochistan. Three field visits, three focus group discussions, and 20 plus key informant interviews via mixed research methods are conducted for mapping skills about the three categories of existing, proposed, and potential industries of Balochistan. The study results show that the provincial TVET system is underdeveloped to break-even the supply and demand gaps in technical, vocational, common, and specific TVET skills. The provision of relevant TVET skills may potentially develop skilled human resources to break-even the current and futuristic jobs creation and employment opportunities for the bulge of unemployed youth of Balochistan.

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  • Aziz Ahmed & Syed Munawar Shah, 2022. "Skills Mapping for Selected Industries of Special Economic Zones: Job Creation for Unemployed Youth of Balochistan (Article)," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 61(3), pages 445-461.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:61:y:2022:i:3:p:445-461
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    Keywords

    Employment; Industrial Development; Jobs Creation; SEZs/EPZs; Skills Mapping; Technical Skills; Vocational Skills; Youth Development;
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    JEL classification:

    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General

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