Documentos e informes

Piloting a Machine Learning-Based Job-Matching Algorithm : Summary of Results from Pomerania (Inglés)

The objective of this note is to present and discuss the findings of piloting a task-based job matching tool developed by the World Bank and implemented in partnership with the Regional Labor Office of...

Protecting Workers, Firms, and Worker-Firm Attachment During COVID-19 : Economic Considerations for the Assessment of Policy Measures (Inglés)

Governments around the world provided various types of support to businesses and their employees affected by the by the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve employer-employee links, organizational knowledge...

How Did Countries Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis? Emerging Patterns on Jobs-Relates Policies (Inglés)

This brief investigates differences in countries’ jobs-related policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four main patterns emerge. First, the type of labor policies adopted by countries varied greatly...

Building Capacity to Evaluate Value Chain Development for Job Creation : A Case Study from Tunisia (Inglés)

Value Chain Development (VCD) approaches, and building country capacity to adopt them, represent important operational tools to help World Bank client countries harness private sector potential and remove...

Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries (Inglés)

The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced mobility and economic activity, disrupting the lives of people around the globe. This brief presents estimates on the crisis’ impact...

Jobs Interventions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (Inglés)

This Jobs Solutions Note is intended to identify practical solutions for development practitioners and policymakers to design and implement policies and programs for the labor market integration of refugees...

Addressing Employment Obstacles for Young Syrian Refugee Women (Inglés)

This Jobs Note is a result of collaboration between S4YE-Jobs Group and Rand Corporation (an S4YE partner) . It builds on research covering the three countries with the highest concentration of Syrian...

Adapting Skills Training to Address Constraints to Women’s Participation (Inglés)

This Jobs Solutions Note identifies practical solutions for development practitioners to design and implement skills training programs that improve outcomes for women. Based on curated knowledge and evidence...

Adapting Jobs Policies and Programs in the Face of Accelerated Technological Change (Inglés)

This Jobs Solutions Note identifies approaches for practitioners and policymakers to proactively adapt policies and development programs to accelerated technological change. Based on curated knowledge...

Jobs Interventions for Young Women in the Digital Economy (Inglés)

This Jobs Solutions Note identifies practical solutions for development practitioners to proactively integrate gender inclusion in digital jobs programs. Based on curated knowledge and evidence for a specific...

Supporting Jobs in Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Situations (Inglés)

This Jobs Solutions Note identifies practical solutions for development practitioners and policymakers to design and implement policies and programs that improve jobs outcomes for in FCV contexts. Based...

Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa (Inglés)

This Jobs Solutions Note identifies approaches for development practitioners and policymakers to better integrate poor smallholders into agricultural value chains. Based on curated knowledge and evidence...

The Elderly Care Response to Covid-19 : A Review of International Measures to Protect the Elderly Living in Residential Facilities and Implications for Malaysia (Inglés)

This note presents an international picture of measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic specifically for the elderly living residential facilities as a particularly vulnerable setting. For this purpose...

Framing the future of work (Inglés)

Digital technologies affect employment through complex channels: automation, connectivity, and innovation. Labor-saving technologies coupled with reshoring may disrupt labor markets in developing countries...

Measuring skills demanded by employers : skills toward employment and productivity (STEP) (Inglés)

Economic growth depends on skills being put to productive use. In recent years, research on labor outcomes and education shows that there is a substantial mismatch between the supply and demand for skills...

Labor market observatories – critical success factors (Inglés)

The future of work requires more, not less technology in developing countries (Inglés)

Digital technology is transforming the organization and location of production, and thus the futureof work. It risks widening the gap between richer and developing countries, and between the better skilled...

Jobs in global value chains (Inglés)

Global Value Chains (GVC) are significant vehicles of job creation, carrying a share of 60 percent of global trade that employs around 17 million people worldwide. This note highlights evidence of the...