This year, the Subnational B-READY series cover 40 cities in six EU Member States—Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, and the Slovak Republic—covering 36 European regions. In Croatia, the Subnational...
This paper presents a review of global evidence and World Bank operational experience and distills lessons to support the empowerment of youth. The review of global literature reveals three fundamental...
The creation of more and better jobs has been a key driver of poverty and inequality reduction. However, while estimates on the number of jobs are available for most countries, comprehensive measures of...
Africa’s labor market realities underline the need for a focus on short term results for jobs now alongside long-term foundational investments that produce results for jobs tomorrow. The region needs to...
The Global Jobs Indicators Database (JOIN) provides information on labor market outcomes from countries across all income groups with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The sources are in most...
Good jobs are often a key economic issue in advanced and developing economies alike. Jobs outcomes that are socially sub-optimal, inefficient, or inequitable vary a great deal by country, but can include...
There are clear synergies between the JET, gender, and climate/GRID lens, all of which are critical for country level portfolio assessments, e.g., more gender-balanced labor market, green growth. Economic...
Ratings for the Competitiveness and Job Creation Project for Ethiopia were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was...
Indonesia has made remarkable economic progress since the Asian Financial Crisis. To sustain its growth and achieve high-income status by 2045, it needs to address the long-standing challenge of informality...
In this paper the authors analyze the evidence of job polarization - the relative decline of mid-wage jobs in developing and emerging economies. They carry out an extensive literature review, revealing...
This tool provides charts and tables of indicators from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES). It is intended to help analysts diagnose the key policy, institutional, or market failures causing sub optimal...
Despite social and economic advances over the past decades, racial inequality remains expressive and persistent in labor markets in Brazil. A a mix-method study commissioned by the World Bank and carried...
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) face the dual and interlinked challenge of lack of jobs and low quality of public services. Labor force participation rates, especially of women, are among the lowest in Europe...
The persistent lack of good jobs that is, an inadequate level or quality of jobs, inefficient and/or inequitable jobs outcomes is a key economic issue in developing (and some developed) economies. Yet...
The objective of the jobs diagnostic (JD) is to generate evidence that will inform policies that create more and better jobs in Mongolia while moving toward a more diversified economy. Sustained economic...
In 2021 Indonesia started to implement unemployment insurance program through the issuance of Government Regulation 37/2021 on Job-Loss Guarantee (Jaminan Kehilangan Pekerjaan, JKP). The implementation...
Chapter 6 of the Western and Central Africa Education Strategy examines the challenge of job-relevant skills development and research in AFW and identifies high-impact interventions to improve the performance...
In mid-2020, the Government of Colombia launched a labor reform consultation process (Misión de Empleo) in response to a deterioration in pre-Covid19 employment indicators and changing economic and labor...