Pathways to Better Jobs in IDA Countries: Findings from Jobs Diagnostics

Dino Leonardo Merotto, Michael Weber and Reyes Aterido

No 30469561, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank

Abstract: This report documents cross-country findings from analysis conducted by World Bank staff working on Jobs Diagnostics. It identifies some key insights for policy makers to take into account when designing policies and programs for inclusive growth. The findings are drawn from three different sources. The macroeconomic section analyzes data for over 16,000 overlapping episodes of economic growth in 125 countries. The labor supply section analyzes labor data from the latest household surveys in 150 countries around the world. The firm-level analysis draws on business data from countries for which—at the time of writing—the World Bank had conducted a Jobs Diagnostic. The report identifies jobs-related transitions as the pathways people follow to better jobs —workers increase their hours worked, become more productive in their work, move between locations, change sectors and occupations, and shift from self- to waged employment and from less to more successful firms.

Keywords: transition from school to work; Learning and Innovation Credit; per capita income growth; female labor force participation; annual per capita income; united nations population projections; small and medium enterprise; employment elasticity of growth; labor productivity; employment growth; country income group; productivity growth; movement of labor; global financial crisis; number of jobs; demand for labor; labor productivity growth; labor force growth; share of wage; gross domestic product; share of employment; employment in agriculture; labor market participation; types of firms; total productivity growth; agricultural productivity growth; source of employment; output per worker; demand for good; unpaid family worker; public sector wage; real gdp; positive social externalities; sovereign wealth fund; total factor productivity; improvement in productivity; privileges and immunity; factor of production; decomposition of growth; description of data; real exchange rate; share of labor; economies of scale; roads and water; producing new product; international development agency; decline in fertility; high fertility rate; real economic growth; child care facility; tax and regulation; working-age population; micro firms; wage employment; aging country; Job Creation; high wage; employment rate; agricultural employment; Demographic Transition; jobs strategies; richer countries; employment type; wage work; Macroeconomic Analysis; productivity gain; wage worker; primary source; business data; Informal Jobs; country population; industry productivity; employment share; urban population; borrower country; labor movement; inclusive growth; productivity decomposition; Macroeconomic Policy; population pyramid; employment source; Death rates; employment pattern; labor-intensive activities; firm-level analysis; formal employment; household survey; working age; average elasticity; labor supply; demographic dividend; total employment; worker increase; consumption demand; job loss; spatial analysis; existing business; market condition; labor income; movable collateral; tradable sector; school leaver; firm size; sectoral employment; agglomeration effect; statistical agency; economic geography; empirical research; total wage; income category; traditional sector; upper right; significant challenge; Social Mobility; labor intensity; public wage; present study; previous work; inclusive development; Job Quality; marital status; education level; finding job; land market; regional investment; Exchange Rates; foreign exchange; global benchmark; self-employed farmers; Young Workers; farm jobs; country risk; surplus labor; aggregate investment; primary production; aging population; commercial farm; smallholder farm; household risk; productive employment; vulnerable communities; smaller number; opportunity cost; regional policy; legal reform; national economy; labor demand; present evidence; job profile; international benchmarks; creating job; formal sector; vulnerable group; public policy; job center; low-productivity agriculture; secondary city; average employment; harmonization effort; program leader; global growth; designing policy; sole responsibility; Capital Investments; commercial purpose; original work; dynamic component; workers experience; linear relationship; employment volatility; small sample; decomposition results; aggregate productivity; copyright owner; production function; unemployment rate; agricultural worker; employment creation; labor reallocation; fixed proportion; production technique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68
Date: 2018-10-01
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