ILO Brief - Employment in Myanmar in 2021: A rapid assessment Background

Also, liquidity shortages and disruption of the working-hour losses for 2021 are based on the banking sector have limited the ability of businesses to estimation methodology outlined in the Annex, which is pay workers and suppliers. [...] aligned with the approach used in the original In July 2021, the ILO published a rapid assessment of assessment and extends on previous methodologies the impact on the labour market since the military used by the ILO to estimate labour market trends 5 takeover, estimating employment losses in the first half during the COVID-19 crisis. [...] The labour market prospects in the country one year after estimates should be interpreted as indicative and may the military takeover, covering the whole labour force, not fully capture the fluidity of the ongoing, multi- faceted crisis. [...] The definitions of employment and working hours applied in this brief are based on the international statistical standard which are also utilized in the Myanmar Labour Force Survey.15 The details of the estimation methodology are outlined below. [...] In other words, the more people are mobile and the more positive the sentiment of newspaper articles on issues related to the labour market in a country, the more workers are in employment and the higher are the working hours.