Abstract
When a person leave his/her home place and migrate to other place, he/she may call emigrant. This paper deals with effect of migration on employment. The study was carried out to investigate the pre and post occupation of emigrants. Primary data was conducted from two villages of district Hangu, namely Shnawari and Darband through questionnaire and descriptive statistic was used to achieve the objectives. It is concluded that emigration has significant effect on employment opportunity, before emigration 45.58% people were jobless and the figure dropdown to 1.36% after migration. Most of them are drivers and majority of emigrants have qualified up to matric. They have skill but lack of technical training and the remittance they send have a significant impact on household income.
Highlights
Migration phenomenon is as old as human kind and the process of migration increase as the world becoming fast by the invention of most advance technology and communication system
It is concluded that emigration has significant effect on employment opportunity, before emigration 45.58% people were jobless and the figure dropdown to 1.36% after migration
The lack of employment opportunities and low per capita income push the people toward migration
Summary
Migration phenomenon is as old as human kind and the process of migration increase as the world becoming fast by the invention of most advance technology and communication system. The flow of international migrants has increase annually due to globalization and considered the countries boundary is just an imaginary boundary (ILO, 2005). The per capita income of remittance receiver families is 45% more than those of non-remittance receiver and it was 64% for the case of urban households (Asif, 2013) It was considered key source of income and assets generation and enhanced consumption expenditure of families of emigrants that accelerate development process which is beneficial for entire community. From Pakistan, due to poor employment opportunities, people leave their origin place and bulk amount of labour force has been migrated to Gulf countries ( Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain) and Saudi Arabia (Vaqar, 2012). While some people migrated for the purpose of enjoying peaceful environment and getting high salaried job
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