Kenya labour market Stories

A new IEA report shows global demand for applied technical workers is rising nearly twice as fast as graduate supply, straining energy firms and expos...

World Bank data shows Generative AI skills now attract wage premiums of up to 36 per cent worldwide, as vacancies surge across ICT and white-collar ro...

In its latest November economic update, the World Bank notes that despite a rapidly growing working-age population, formal employment growth has stagn...

At the centre of the discussion was how persistent gender imbalances, especially in employment, access to productive assets, and unpaid care work are...

Inequality is created by, among other factors, where you are born and live. Alongside this, income, assets, and access to education and healthcare dif...

In Kenya, the labour force has also seen significant growth, with a total of 19.1 million people employed in 2022, mostly in the informal sector.

Labour Principal Secretary Shadrack Mwadime says at least 600 million new job opportunities must be generated by 2030 to accommodate the expanding wor...