As recession hits UAE too, many employees and employers project a gloomy look.

But is everything truly so disturbing and past hope?

Read the following article published by Gulf News on the Filipino statistics which does give an indication of +/- percentages that might be applicable for other nationalities also.
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Asian diplomats: no drop in the UAE workforce

The overall expatriate workforce in the UAE has not dropped drastically, according to Asian diplomats who backed their claims with statistics which indicate an increase for some nationalities in the first quarter of this year.

Virginia Calvez, a labour attaché at the Philippines consulate, said that Filipino community had not been affected dramatically by the financial crisis.

While 3,000 Filipino workers in Dubai and Northern Emirates have been made redundant due to the crisis, some 5,000 Filipinos entered the country in the first quarter of 2009, according to Philippines consulate’s statistics.

Currently, there are 300,000 Filipino workers in the UAE with 215,000 working in Dubai and the northern emirates indicating that only about 1.4 percent of the Filipino workforce has returned home, according to Calvez.

Source courtesy: http://archive.gulfnews(dot)com/articles/09/04/30/10309007.html
By Wafa Issa, Staff Reporter
Published: April 29, 2009, 23:08