#8 Which Comes First – the Chicken, the Egg, or the Demand for Poultry Products? Engels Law and the Design of Jobs Strategies in Low-Income Countries (LICs)
Access to jobs, emerging economies, Value chain analysis
Who Is Taking The Jobs Of The Future In Jordan?
By Hernan Winkler The short answer is: women. They are increasingly employed in jobs that are difficult to replace with new technologies, according to our new report on the Jordanian labor market. These are the non-routine jobs with better prospects as countries move up the technology ladder. They include occupations that require a lot of…
#7 Structural Change Versus Waged Employment: A Tale of Two Stories?
Access to jobs, Job quality, job outcomes, emerging economies, labor, labor force, labor markets, Labor outcomes, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
#8 Which Comes First – the Chicken, the Egg, or the Demand for Poultry Products? Engels Law and the Design of Jobs Strategies in Low-Income Countries (LICs)
Authors: Dino Merotto and Elena Casanovas, Jobs Group, World Bank. In in blog #2 and blog #3 in this series we focused on the evolution of the sectoral pattern of production and jobs as countries develop. But new research suggests that changing patterns of consumption and net trade should also be taken into account when…
#7 Structural Change Versus Waged Employment: A Tale of Two Stories?
Author: Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz, Jobs Group, World Bank. Out of 48 countries whose per capita income more than doubled in real terms since 1991, 47 experienced a decline in the share of workers in the agriculture sector, and in 27 of them, this decline exceeded ten percentage points. However, the sectoral shift in employment is not…
Honduras Jobs Diagnostic (2020)
job diagnostic
Authors
Colin Andrews Colin Andrews is a program manager in the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice. He has over 15 years’ social protection experience in Africa, South Asia, and in global policy. Colin leads the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI), a multi-partner initiative to support the scale-up of national economic inclusion programs. Colin…
Why Aren’t More Women In Honduras Working?
By Veronica Michel & Ian Walker New findings show that, like their counterparts in many neighboring countries, Honduran women are sorely underrepresented in the job market. Because of this, the country’s economy is losing about 22 percent of potential per capita income – even more than the 17 percent loss for Latin America and…
#6 Do Good Jobs Matter for Poverty Alleviation?
Job quality, job outcomes, emerging economies, labor, labor force, labor markets