Manpower planning in a market economy with labor market signals

Arvil Van Adams, John Middleton and Adrian Ziderman

No 837, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The movement from centrally planned to market economies will not eliminate the need for manpower planning. Rather, it will substantially change the roles manpower planners play and the techniques they use. Manpower planners must become analysts of the labor market. In a market economy, the will be asked for information: (a) to guide private decisions about training; (b) to improve the management of training systems; (c) to identify impediments to competitive labor markets; and (d) to help rationalize public investments in education and training. The authors introduce techniques for manpower planning that acknowledge the dynamic nature of market economies. They reject the idea of forecasting manpower requirements, proposing instead to use signals from the labor market picked up by monitoring movementsin wages and employment and evaluating training programs.

Keywords: ICT Policy and Strategies; Labor Standards; Labor Markets; Environmental Economics&Policies; Teaching and Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992-01-31
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