Foreign Workers in Kuwait: Implications for the Kuwaiti Labor Force

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Foreign nationals comprise 60 percent of the population and 78 percent of the labor force in Kuwait. The government there seeks to reduce the dependancy on foreign workers and is designing several policies to attain this goal. Structural analysis of the labor force indicates that 62 percent of Kuwaiti males are concentrated in administrative and service occupations while their percentage in sales and production work has declined during 1970–80. This demonstrates the need for reorienting educational/training programs and changing Kuwaiti attitudes towards manual work to ensure the realization of the “Kuwaitization” process, and balance the nationals with foreign nationals.

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