Photo: Curt Carnemark / World Bank Authors: Martin Abel and Eliana Carranza This blog was originally published by and is reprinted by permission from VoxDev. Imagine that you are an 18-year-old in Mexico, you have just graduated from high school and you plan to enter the labor market. Among the most important decisions is…
Authors: Clemente Avila Parra , Aylin Isik Dikmelik and Auri Minaya A young woman in Mexico City stands in a long line, desperate for government assistance to get a job. Despite her college degree, Claudia has jumped from gig to gig since she lost her job during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in…
Dialogue II: Closing the Agricultural Labor Gap: Decent Migrant Work or Automation? Rome, June 7. 14:00 – 15:30 HYBRID EVENT Many high-income countries face severe shortages of agricultural labor. In France alone, 57 percent of all vacancies in agriculture risk going unfilled this year. Raising wages and improving employment conditions has not been enough…
Links to all recordings of the Jobs Flagship Seminar Series Jobs Flagship Seminar with Oriana Bandiera and Ahmed Elsayed, on G²LM|LIC – Jobs of the World Project (February 2023) In this seminar, Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics) and Ahmed Elsayed (American University in Cairo) presented the Jobs of the World project – a…
Photo: Curt Carnemark / World Bank Authors: Martin Abel and Eliana Carranza This blog was originally published in English and is reprinted in Spanish by permission from VoxDev. En muchos países de ingresos bajos y medios (LMIC), los jóvenes enfrentan diferentes trayectorias de empleo y salario dependiendo de su punto de entrada…
Event Recording: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/2bd700a6-9bc3-44e7-9389-1618756a2471 On June 17, 20222, the World Bank’s Rome Program on Jobs and Labor Mobility and the Luiss Guido Carli University hosted the presentation of the new World Bank Flagship report “Building Resilient Migration Systems in the Mediterranean Region: Lessons from COVID-19”. Migration has been a source of social and economic well-being…
Job Creation, Productivity growth, Quality of job, Labor market performance, Inclusive economic growth, Employment growth
The Jobs Group has developed a blog series based on the Jobs Solutions Notes. The Solutions Notes synthesize findings from the Jobs Umbrella Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF)-funded activities and other sources based on research, evaluations, pilots, and operations. Each Note succinctly analyzes efforts and challenges, and provides an evaluation of what has worked, and what does…
The Jobs Group has developed a blog series based on the Jobs Solutions Notes. The Solutions Notes synthesize findings from the Jobs Umbrella Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF)-funded activities and other sources based on research, evaluations, pilots, and operations. Each Note succinctly analyzes efforts and challenges, and provides an evaluation of what has worked, and what does…