#5 Waged Work: The Pathway to Better Jobs
Access to jobs, Job quality, job outcomes, emerging economies, labor, labor force, labor markets, labor outcomes, small and medium-sized enterprises
Access to jobs, Job quality, job outcomes, emerging economies, labor, labor force, labor markets, labor outcomes, small and medium-sized enterprises
Author: Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz, Jobs Group, World Bank. Between 1996 and 2003, Nigeria’s per capita GDP grew by almost 3 percent per annum and the proportion of people living under US$ 1.90 per day – the World Bank’s threshold to measure extreme poverty – fell from 64 percent to 54 percent. By contrast, poverty did not…
Authors: Michael Weber and Jörg Langbein, Jobs Group, World Bank. Waged employment is the pathway to better jobs for most workers. Workers in waged jobs have more stable and higher earnings, better quality employment, and longer work relationships than many other types of employment (Merotto, Weber & Aterido, 2018). Yet, employment patterns vary greatly by…
Access to Jobs, Job Quality, Job Outcomes, Job Outcomes, Emerging Economies, labor, labor force, labor markets
Access to Jobs, Job Quality, Job Outcomes, Emerging Economies, Labor, labor force, labor markets.
Author: Dino Merotto, Jobs Group, World Bank. Blog #1 in our series showed that growth in labor productivity explains the differences in per capita income growth across countries. When we break down labor productivity growth into within and between sector components, we see that the reallocation of labor from lower productivity agriculture to higher productivity…
Author: Dino Merotto, Jobs Group, World Bank. Blog #2 in our series showed how the share of employment in services rises as countries get richer, and the share in agriculture falls. In this blog, we combine the pattern of GDP with that of employment. Three simple charts show vividly how both the structure of GDP…
Access to Jobs, Emerging Economies, Labor, Labor force, Labor Markets