Economic growth is often associated with welfare gains through job creation. However, the number and quality of new job opportunities created in a growing economy vary across countries and sectors...
Against the backdrop of aging, Indonesia has started to address important policy challenges, including by gradually raising the retirement age. Based on the United Nations World Population Prospects...
Mongolia’s labor demand expanded substantially over the past two decades, and firm-basedemployment more than doubled between 1998 and 2016. This increase was mainly driven by the private sector, ...
Australia’s public employment service hasrecently changed its name from Jobactive(2015-2022) to Worforce Australia. This changecomes along with a series of reforms that are stillunder implementation...
This paper provides an update on the implementation of the WBG Outcome Orientation roadmap presented to the Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) in June 2021. The update presents (i) a discussion...
The employment rate among persons with disabilities in the Russian Federation is low - only 26.3 percent as of 2021 - with virtually no change over the past five years. At the same time, the government...
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the link from growth to jobs was tenuous in the first decade of the transition, giving rise to the notion of jobless growth. Yet, European countries suffered large...
Nearly three fifths of the Philippine labor force was engaged in agriculture. This proportion has dropped slowly but the absolute numbers have Increased rapidly and are bound to continue to do so. The...