#1 Better, Not More Jobs are Associated with Increased Per Capita Income
Access to Jobs, Job Outcomes, Job Quality
#2 Most People in Most Countries Work in Farming and Services, not in Factories
Authors: Dino Merotto and Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz, Jobs Group, World Bank. Data on employment shares by sector show the rising importance of service jobs as countries get richer – and a corresponding decline in the share of agriculture jobs. Manufacturing, in contrast, plays a much less important part in the shift to higher incomes and it…
#1 Better, Not More Jobs are Associated with Increased Per Capita Income
Authors: Dino Merotto and Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz, Jobs Group, World Bank. Perhaps the most fundamental finding from Jobs Diagnostics is that it isn’t adding more of the existing stock of jobs that raises a country’s per capita income. Rather, it is improving the productivity of a country’s jobs that matters more. When we split the sources…
Jobs and Structural Change Blog Series
This new blog series presents and deepens key global findings from the Jobs Group of the World Bank on Jobs and Structural Change in the context of Jobs Diagnostics. Our aim is to better inform practitioners, such as those in our community of practitioners, so that they can develop country-specific strategies for jobs and economic…
Knowledge4Jobs: Gender Gaps In Employment
KNOWLEDGE4JOBS_January 2020
Uganda: A Review of the World Bank Jobs Portfolio
Job Diagnostic
Making Global Value Chains Work For Workers
Think of an of an image of globalization and you may picture a Bangladeshi woman in a sari stitching together a t-shirt displaying a pop-culture phrase for a fast-fashion outlet in London or Los Angeles.
A New Era Of Work In The Middle East And North Africa: What Is To Be Done?
Imagine this prosperous future for the Middle East and North Africa: innovation and technology permeate dynamic markets, society flourishes with the economic inclusion of youth, women and the less fortunate, and economies capitalize on the massive investments made during the past few decades.
World Bank Launches New Tools For Youth Employment Projects
The youth employment community needs new tools to develop new solutions. Authors: Danielle Robinson and Sunamika Singh Original post: blogs.worldbank.org/jobs Practitioners across the globe are intent on identifying effective, sustainable and scalable ways to increase youth employment based on solid evidence of what’s working—and what’s not. A 2018 stocktake conducted by the World Bank’s Jobs…