Zambia’s Employment Outlook: Diversification, Formalization and Education

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 212

This paper is an update of a previous ILO paper. It seeks to inform the forthcoming formulation of Zambia’s Seventh National Development Framework for 2017–21. Its
main objective is to assess whether there has been a change in the dynamics and characteristics of the labour market and employment over the period 2012–14, by using newly available data on the labour force.