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  • Active labor market programs for youth : a framework to guide youth employment interventions (Inglés)

    Youth are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults, even in economies with strong economic growth. This note is a tool to provide policymakers and youth-serving organizations with a framework...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 58601 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cunningham,Wendy,Sanchez Puerta,Maria Laura,Wuermli,Alice Jean

  • Globalization, wages and the quality of jobs : lessons for policy makers (Inglés)

    This note summarizes the results and describes the policy implications of the recently published book globalization, wages, and the quality of jobs that evaluates some of the effects of trade and foreign...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 58600 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor:

  • A practicioner's guide to evaluating the impacts of labor market programs (Inglés)

    This note provides an introduction to the impact evaluation of labor market programs, with particular reference to developing countries. Its focus is on the main issues that need to be considered when...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 52201 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fitzsimons,Emla Olivia Anne,Vera Hernandez,Angel Marcos

  • Unemployment Insurance Simulation Model (UISIM) (Inglés)

    This note describes the key features of the Unemployment Insurance Simulation Model (UISIM) - how the model is structured, what data inputs are needed, and what outputs the model generates (the model comes...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 47305 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fares,Jean,Vodopivec,Milan

  • Minimum wages in developing countries : helping or hurting workers? (Inglés)

    This policy note reviews the literature on the effects of minimum wages on labor markets in developing countries. The authors begin by elucidating the challenges to ascertaining these effects, especially...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 47071 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Terrell,Katherine D.,Almeida,Rita Kullberg

  • Efficiency effects and lessons for developing countries (Inglés)

    Unemployment insurance (UI) is the most common public income support program for the unemployed in developed countries.1 In these countries, it typically offers good protection: it covers the majority...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 30134 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Vodopivec,Milan,Whitehead,Tim

  • REUSE : Training levies: evidence from evalualtions (Inglés)

    There is often broad political support in developing countries for public provision and financing of worker training and most countries have policies that, either directly or indirectly, support the training...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33395 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dar,Amit,Whitehead, Tim [editor]

  • Comparing unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance (Inglés)

    Markets alone cannot provide adequate protection against the risk of unemployment. Private unemployment insurance (UI) fails because of informational problems: the so-called moral hazard (changes in behavior...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 30133 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Vodopevic, Milan,Whitehead,Tim

  • Training levies: evidence from evaluations (Inglés)

    This note examines one of the most commonly used techniques for generating resources from employers - payroll levies. In many countries payroll taxes on enterprises (with reimbursement for training undertaken)...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 30129 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dar,Amit,Whitehead,Tim

  • Public employment services: functions and innovations (Inglés)

    Public Employment Services (PES) in industrialized countries have traditionally provided job-brokering services - arranging for jobseekers to obtain jobs and employers to fill vacancies. Increasingly...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 30132 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Dar,Amit,Whitehead,Tim

  • Employment regulation : Rules for hiring and termination (Inglés)

    Employment protection - the set of rules governing hiring and terminating employees - is a key feature of any country's labor market. What types of contracts will be permitted between employers and employees?...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 30130 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Betcherman,Gordon,Whitehead, Tim [editor]

  • Impact evaluation : Techniques for evaluating active labor market programs (Inglés)

    Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 30131 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Dar,Amit,Whitehead, Tim [editor]