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Workforce nationalization—reducing expatriate employment by getting more nationals into the workforce has lately become the focus of many GCC countries. UAE calls this drive ‘Emiratization’, and it is being implemented in multiple sectors in the country including private and public sectors. Banking and financial services is a critical sector in UAE economy and is also one of the major employers of UAE nationals. However, majority of UAE nationals working in banking sector are currently working in retail banking where jobs are on a decline due to extensive digitization. There is an urgent need to upskill/upskill them in line with changing skill sets required for the banking sector in the twenty-first century.
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Vivek, S., Baby, A. (2023). Workforce Nationalization in the UAE: Creating a Framework for Training Emirati Nationals for the Banking Sector. In: Mishrif, A., Karolak, M., Mirza, C. (eds) Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets. The Political Economy of the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8072-5_8
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