Vietnam’s labour market continued to maintain recovery momentum in the first quarter of 2023, Deputy Director General of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Trung Tien said at a press conference in Hanoi on April 6.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is planning to issue electronic employment records for people of the working age, 15 and above, when they engage in the labour market.
A new research brief shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has not only exacerbated existing inequalities but also created new gender gaps, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Vietnam has said, calling for a change in the mindset of not only every man but also every woman to influence their economic behaviour and achieve gender equality in the labour market.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has directed Vietnam Social Security (VSS) to focus on expanding coverage of compulsory and voluntary social insurance and raising public awareness of its importance.
The number of women at working age in Vietnam reached 22.3 million, accounting for 45.6 percent of the labour force, which is also challenged by the fourth Industrial Revolution.
The General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported encouraging data in the labour market in the first six months of 2019, including unemployment decline and income improvement.
An international symposium took place in Hanoi on October 19 to suggest policy solutions towards helping Vietnam develop sustainably amid demographic changes.
Significant achievements have been recorded in the population-family planning work in Vietnam in the past years, including maintaining a stable population growth rate and replacement level fertility.
The unemployment rate among university graduates and those holding higher degrees in the third quarter of 2017 was 4.51 percent, compared to 3.63 percent in the previous three months, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).
Around one fifth (20.1 percent) of enterprises plan to expand their workforce in the third quarter, according to the latest newsletter on the labour market update released by the MoLISA on September 15.
Expected stable economic growth in 2016 is projected to positively affect the labour market, curbing the unemployment rate among people of working age to 2.2 percent.
Cambodia has about 8 million people aged from 15-64 among its 15-million-strong population, according to the country's 2014 socio-economic census report.
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