For the last 10 years, jobs in Kurdistan have been on the rise due to the economic growth of the region. Most job vacancies can be found in the construction, hospitality, and the communication and transport sectors. The fast economic growth of the autonomous Kurdistan region is the result of foreign investments and the high security levels of the place.
For decades, wars and a cruel dictatorship left most of the Kurdistan region in ruins. People fled the country in order to escape violence, starvation and death, and sought refuge in the nearby Middle Eastern countries, in Turkey, or in Europe. For those who were not able to leave the Kurdish mountains provided a refuge, while agriculture and animal farming provided the only jobs in Kurdistan at that time.
What has been happening in Kurdistan over the last decade is exactly the opposite. After the fall of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship, Kurdistan regained its autonomous state and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) used the region’s natural resources in oil and gas as the main source of income to fund the reconstruction of villages and towns and give hope and perspective to those people who had not left the country. Today more than 65% of the destroyed villages and towns have been rebuilt and construction is the sector that offers the most jobs in Kurdistan. Thousands of refugees have repatriated to reunite with their families and earn a decent living in their own country.
Attracting Investments
The next step of the autonomous government was to establish the Kurdish Board of Investment in 2006, in order to attract Arab and international investments. The same year, a liberal investment law was ratified to offer a large number of privileges and incentives to foreign investors. As a result, sectors such as construction, housing, communication and transport, trade and industry, banking, tourism, education, health, and agriculture started flourishing and attracting the young people not only from Kurdistan, but also from the rest of Iraq to work in a steady and secure environment. While in several countries unemployment is on the rise, jobs in Kurdistan are plentiful.
Attracting Expatriates
Investors soon brought with them, highly-skilled corporate professionals, executives and consultants who took permanent residence with their families in the many newly-constructed gated villages all around the big cities of the three governorates of Kurdistan: Erbil, Duhok, and Sulaymaniyah. As they say, wealth attracts wealth, so the major Kurdistan cities became richer with the building of large shopping malls, five-star hotels, restaurants and cafés, schools and colleges, amusement parks and enormous exhibition centers. Today, after 10 years since development started in this part of northern Iraq, a large number of job in Erbil are still available to locals and foreign alike.
Improving Transportation
A contributing factor to the economic development of the Kurdistan region is the building of two international airports, one in Erbil and the other in Sulaymaniyah. Air travel has made the transportation of people and cargo a lot easier and contributes to the development of tourism that can become a catalyst to the further economic development of the region and another source of income for its residents.
Preserving Peace and Stability
This is the number one factor for economic growth, social peace and cohesion, and happy living. Despite the fact that southern Iraq is still plagued with violence and turbulence, the Kurdish Peshmerga army is determined to prevent any form of violence and keep Kurdistan a safe place to live and work.
For decades, wars and a cruel dictatorship left most of the Kurdistan region in ruins. People fled the country in order to escape violence, starvation and death, and sought refuge in the nearby Middle Eastern countries, in Turkey, or in Europe. For those who were not able to leave the Kurdish mountains provided a refuge, while agriculture and animal farming provided the only jobs in Kurdistan at that time.
What has been happening in Kurdistan over the last decade is exactly the opposite. After the fall of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship, Kurdistan regained its autonomous state and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) used the region’s natural resources in oil and gas as the main source of income to fund the reconstruction of villages and towns and give hope and perspective to those people who had not left the country. Today more than 65% of the destroyed villages and towns have been rebuilt and construction is the sector that offers the most jobs in Kurdistan. Thousands of refugees have repatriated to reunite with their families and earn a decent living in their own country.
Attracting Investments
The next step of the autonomous government was to establish the Kurdish Board of Investment in 2006, in order to attract Arab and international investments. The same year, a liberal investment law was ratified to offer a large number of privileges and incentives to foreign investors. As a result, sectors such as construction, housing, communication and transport, trade and industry, banking, tourism, education, health, and agriculture started flourishing and attracting the young people not only from Kurdistan, but also from the rest of Iraq to work in a steady and secure environment. While in several countries unemployment is on the rise, jobs in Kurdistan are plentiful.
Attracting Expatriates
Investors soon brought with them, highly-skilled corporate professionals, executives and consultants who took permanent residence with their families in the many newly-constructed gated villages all around the big cities of the three governorates of Kurdistan: Erbil, Duhok, and Sulaymaniyah. As they say, wealth attracts wealth, so the major Kurdistan cities became richer with the building of large shopping malls, five-star hotels, restaurants and cafés, schools and colleges, amusement parks and enormous exhibition centers. Today, after 10 years since development started in this part of northern Iraq, a large number of job in Erbil are still available to locals and foreign alike.
Improving Transportation
A contributing factor to the economic development of the Kurdistan region is the building of two international airports, one in Erbil and the other in Sulaymaniyah. Air travel has made the transportation of people and cargo a lot easier and contributes to the development of tourism that can become a catalyst to the further economic development of the region and another source of income for its residents.
Preserving Peace and Stability
This is the number one factor for economic growth, social peace and cohesion, and happy living. Despite the fact that southern Iraq is still plagued with violence and turbulence, the Kurdish Peshmerga army is determined to prevent any form of violence and keep Kurdistan a safe place to live and work.
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