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...
The paper reviews the dynamics of human capital – mostly skills –accumulation and utilization during successful and static episodes of structural transformation in a sample of more than...
The paper reviews the dynamics of human capital – mostly skills –accumulation and utilization during successful and static episodes of structural transformation in a sample of more than...
Les niveaux de capital humain du Gabon s’apparentent davantage à ceux de l’Afriquesubsaharienne qu’à ceux des autres pays à revenu intermédiaire de la tranche supérieure.Le...
Good jobs are often a key economic issue in advanced and developing economies alike. Jobs outcomes that are socially sub-optimal, inefficient, or inequitable vary a great deal by country, but can include...
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, ...
There are clear synergies between the JET, gender, and climate/GRID lens, all of which are critical for country level portfolio assessments, e.g., more gender-balanced labor market, green growth. Economic...
This evaluation is the first stage of the Independent Evaluation Group’s assessment of the World Bank’s support for more, better, and more inclusive jobs through International Development ...
Statistical profiling tool helps to segment jobseekers by their difficulty/likelihood to find a job, their distance to the labour market, their degree of disadvantage, their likelihood to exhaust unemployment ...
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...
In the Netherlands, the labor market ischaracterized by a high amount of parttime jobs (mainly held by women) and acomparatively high share of temporaryemployment and self-employment.4 On the onehand, ...
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to Nepal in achieving its development objectives between 2014 and 2023. The evaluation will...
Quantifying the jobs impacts of development interventions is a challenge, largely because much of the impact is indirect. Yet, given the tremendous jobs challenges in developing countries, these impacts...
The objective of the Jobs and Economic Transformation Project for Kenya is to increase private sector investments, access to markets and sustainable finance to create and improve jobs. There are four ...
Despite a robust recent pre-COVID-19 growth spell, the national poverty incidence was estimated at 44 percent in 2018 and Guinea continues to face multiple challenges to sustain progress on poverty...
The development objective of the Disaster Risk Management and Climate Development Policy Loan with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option for Philippines is to strengthen the Government of the Philippines’...
The brief is the fourth in a series of five briefs that investigate different aspects of the jobs and economic recovery process from the COVID 19 pandemic Nepal. It uses data from the two rounds of...