This paper focuses on the coverage dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America. Coverage of pension systems has slowly become a central issue in the policy debate in the region. After more than...
This paper discusses the size of Europe's migrant population, its demographic structure, and the socio-economic position of migrants. The European Labor Force Survey (LFS) as well as Eurostat, Organisation...
This paper assesses the effectiveness of core social protection programs in Uttar Pradesh using the following criteria: i) coverage, ii) targeting efficiency; and iii) adequacy and potential impact on...
This paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on different types of labor laws. It examines the effects of amendments to labor dispute laws, and amendments to job security legislation. It...
This review and commentary is intended to provide World Bank staff with informational resources to understand the relevance of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...
This paper is one in a series of World Bank Working Papers that seeks to document the experience of Brazil's Bolsa Família Program. It highlights the key nuts and bolts of designing and implementing the...
The Macedonia Community Development Project (MCDP) has evoked considerable interest among those involved in CDD because it focuses on sustainable development in a post-conflict environment and in the context...
This paper tells the story of the Kosovo reform and draws policy and implementation lessons from the experience. The paper discusses policy issues and implementation experience in great detail, to serve...
This Globalization and employment conditions study focuses on the impact of international commerce on wages, working conditions, and core labor protections. This focus is based on the fact that the dramatic...
This paper reviews what is meant by disability and puts forth a way of measuring disability suitable for internationally comparable prevalence rates. The basic trend in this regard is to measure functional...
This paper summarizes the state of the portfolio of World Bank lending activities and analytic work on Social Safety Nets between fiscal year 2002-2006. It presents a description of the methodology used...
This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early childhood development. The authors analyze migration in a poor shock-prone border region...
Ethiopia accounts for the largest youth population in Sub-Saharan Africa and the lack of employment opportunities for Ethiopian young people is among the critical developing challenges facing the country...
This paper focuses on the coverage dimension, looking at empirical data in Latin America. Coverage of pension systems has slowly become a central issue in the policy debate in the region. After more than...
Almost all Western European countries are experiencing an increasing inflow of immigrants. At the same time, however, the countries of Western Europe are also experiencing other important demographic changes...
In March 2006, the G-20 established a study group on labor mobility and demographics. The World Bank's Social Protection and Labor unit (HDNSP) has been asked to provide an issues note on the relative...
In response to the growing demand for evidence of how social fund (and other CDD) projects achieve significant and measurable improvement in peoples' lives, this toolkit aims to increase the number, expand...
The purpose of this paper is to take stock of all these efforts and to reconsider the relationship between poverty and exposure to risk. The authors present a short review of current practices of vulnerability...
This paper describes the Chilean experience concerning the implementation of a new unemployment insurance (UI) program. The use of individual savings accounts and private management are essential elements...
The economic restructuring in China over the past decade has resulted in displacement of millions of workers who had been employed in the state sector. This has posed tremendous challenges economically...