Pakistan's economy is carried by a workforce — formal and informal — whose voice is rarely heard in the policy debates that shape it. We research labour conditions, wage structures, workplace safety and the country's missing measurement of informal work.
Each focus area is structured around four to six durable sub-themes — research questions that recur and need consistent, longitudinal evidence rather than one-off studies.
Implementation of labour laws across provinces, registration coverage, social-security access and the gap between statute and shop floor.
Industrial-accident documentation, sectoral risk profiles, and the regulatory architecture for workplace inspection — what exists, what doesn't, what works.
Methodological work on counting Pakistan's informal workforce — by sector, by gender, by geography. Including domestic, agricultural and platform work.
Wage-share trends, gender wage gaps, and the rapidly growing population of workers on digital platforms — who they are, what they earn, what protections they have.
Each focus area is supported by one or more DemTech tools — for fieldwork, citizen engagement, monitoring or open-data publication.
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