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What we ve been reading: How post-pandemic labor policy reforms are key to creating more, better jobs
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What we’ve been reading: How to improve technical and vocational education and training for youth in developing countries
Students at a vocational education and training center. Photo: © Dana Smillie / World Bank
This reading list is based on the March 2021 edition of the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter, curated by the World Bank’s Jobs Group and Labor & Skills Global Solutions Group. Click here to sign up for the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter.
Yet, TVET systems often underperform, and skills shortages or mismatches in the labor market continue to be major challenges for countries around the world. This skills constraint is typically more binding for larger and more outward-oriented innovative firms, implying that they can constrain structural transformation. Furthermore, TVET often fails to attract female students, particularly to fields in science and technology. Addressing this failure would help reduce occupational gender segregation commonly observed in labor markets.
What we’ve been reading: Rethinking migration policies in the COVID era
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This reading list is based on the January 2021 edition of the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter, curated by the World Bank’s Jobs Group and Labor & Skills Global Solutions Group. Click here to sign up for the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted millions of people across the world, including migrants and refugees. Their living and working conditions have made them even more vulnerable to the health and economic consequences of the health crisis. These effects are not limited to people on the move, but also include employers and communities in countries receiving and sending migrants. An emerging body of work has started documenting the short-term economic losses, health risks, and exposure to other vulnerabilities that migrant and refugee populations and their affiliated countries have experienced in the last twelve months.
What we’ve been reading: Jobs and economic transformation
Factory worker in Nairobi. Photo: Ethan Liku/The World Bank
This blog is based on the November 2020 edition of the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter, curated by the World Bank’s Jobs Group and Labor and Skills Global Solutions Group. Click here to sign up for the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter.
Jobs and Economic Transformation (JET) is a special theme under the World Bank Group’s IDA19 addressing key opportunities and constraints facing lower income countries classified under IDA. But the calls for more ambition in addressing better jobs for more people resonate with people and their governments across the world. And the economic impacts of COVID-19 are raising the urgency of the agenda as growth projections fall and job losses mount. Understanding which groups of firms and workers are vulnerable, who is able to adjust, and what it will take to adapt and recover are critical issues that research can inform.
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