This paper describes a new survey designed to collect comprehensive and granular information about required skills and tasks for detailed occupations in Vietnam. The Survey of Detailed Skills asks workers...
The world is witnessing a process of technological change that, in parallel with increasing globalization, is changing the world of work. Technological change will likely lead to a shift in today’s dominant...
As the economies of Southeast Asia continue adopting digital technologies, policy makers increasingly ask how to prepare the workforce for emerging labor demands. However, little is known about the skills...
This note summarizes the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on Vietnam’s labor market in 2020 and evaluates the social protection response to identify lessons learned for future crises. Vietnam’s labor market...
This paper reviews Thailand’s social protection (SP) and labor market systems, to assess how they can be strengthened to address the key trends that will shape its society and economy in the coming decades...
Thailand’s labor market faces several challenges. Labor force participation has been declining, the shift of jobs out of the low-productivity agriculture sector has slowed, and informality is the norm...
As the economies of Southeast Asia continue adopting digital technologies, policymakers increasingly ask how to prepare the workforce for emerging labor demands. However, little is known about the skills...
This note will examine the distributional and efficiency issues associated with the fiscal response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis in Da Nang city and nationally in Vietnam. More specifically, we...
This note will examine the distributional and efficiency issues associated with the fiscal response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis in Da Nang city and nationally in Vietnam. More specifically, we...
This note summarizes the impacts of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak on Vietnam’s labor market in 2020 and evaluates the social protection response to identify lessons learned for future...
Thailand’s labor market faces several challenges. Labor force participation has been declining, the shift of jobs out of the low-productivity agriculture sector has slowed, and informality is the norm...
Thailand’s labor market faces several challenges. Labor force participation has been declining, the shift of jobs out of the low-productivity agriculture sector has slowed, and informality is the norm...
This paper reviews Thailand’s social protection (SP) and labor market systems, to assess how they can be strengthened to address the key trends that will shape its society and economy in the coming decades...
This paper reviews Thailand’s social protection (SP) and labor market systems, to assess how they can be strengthened to address the key trends that will shape its society and economy in the coming decades...
Thailand’s labor market faces several challenges. Labor force participation has been declining, the shift of jobs out of the low-productivity agriculture sector has slowed, and informality is the norm...
The Thailand Economic Monitor (TEM) reports on key developments in Thailand’s economy over the past six months, situates these changes in the context of global trends and Thailand’s longer-term economic...
The government of Myanmar is committed to creating new and better jobs, including for migrant workers. In 2018, they introduced the Myanmar sustainable development plan (2018-2030), a national strategy...
The government of Myanmar is committed to creating new and better jobs, including for migrant workers. In 2018, they introduced the Myanmar sustainable development plan (2018-2030), a national strategy...
The objective of this note is to highlight how social protection can help lay the human capital foundations needed for poverty reduction and economic growth in the East Asia and Pacific region while also...
The note describes the key challenges facing the health, livelihoods, and mobility of internal and international migrants and their families due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The note presents...