Documents & Reports
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Active labor market programs for youth : a framework to guide youth employment interventions (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 58601 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cunningham,Wendy,Sanchez Puerta,Maria Laura,Wuermli,Alice Jean
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Globalization, wages and the quality of jobs : lessons for policy makers (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 58600 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The impact of non-wage benefits on job quality and labor market outcomes in the developing world : what do we know? (English)
One indicator of job quality in the developing world is the extent to which workers are covered by nonwage mandated benefits. Mandated benefits are a class of labor market regulation that requires employers...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 52737 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Helppie,Brooke R.,Macis,Mario
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A practicioner's guide to evaluating the impacts of labor market programs (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 52201 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fitzsimons,Emla Olivia Anne,Vera Hernandez,Angel Marcos
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Addressing the employment effects of the financial crisis : the role of wage subsidies and reduced work schedules (English)
This note briefly reviews the experiences with wage subsidies and reduced work schedules in promoting employment and avoiding the depreciation of accumulated skills and knowledge due to a temporary downturn...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 55082 Document Date: September 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Robalino,David A.,Banerji,Arup
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Unemployment Insurance Simulation Model (UISIM) (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 47305 Document Date: December 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fares,Jean,Vodopivec,Milan
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Minimum wages in developing countries : helping or hurting workers? (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 47071 Document Date: December 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Terrell,Katherine D.,Almeida,Rita Kullberg
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The effects of globalization on working conditions in developing countries : an analysis framework and country study results (English)
Globalization defined as falling barriers to, and the increase in, trade, migration, and investment across borders directly affects workers in both developed and developing countries. While most global...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 42991 Document Date: March 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jayasuriya,Ruwan
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If on-the-job training is so important to competitiveness, why isn't there a better market for it (English)
There is no question that up-to-date job skills are critical to economic performance in today's rapidly changing and fiercely competitive global marketplace. Paradoxically, while the economic efficiency...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 41318 Document Date: September 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aterido,Reyes
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Efficiency effects and lessons for developing countries (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30134 Document Date: April 1, 2004 Author: Vodopivec,Milan,Whitehead,Tim
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REUSE : Training levies: evidence from evalualtions (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33395 Document Date: April 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dar,Amit,Whitehead, Tim [editor]
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Comparing unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30133 Document Date: February 1, 2004 Author: Vodopevic, Milan,Whitehead,Tim
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Training levies: evidence from evaluations (English)
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)...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30129 Document Date: December 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dar,Amit,Whitehead,Tim
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Public employment services: functions and innovations (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30132 Document Date: September 1, 2003 Author: Dar,Amit,Whitehead,Tim
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Employment regulation : Rules for hiring and termination : Reglementations de protection de l'emploi : Regles d'embauche et de licensiement (French)
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?...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30130 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Author: Betcherman,Gordon,Whitehead, Tim [editor]
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Employment regulation : Rules for hiring and termination (English)
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?...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30130 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Author: Betcherman,Gordon,Whitehead, Tim [editor]
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Employment regulation : Rules for hiring and termination : Reglamentos de proteccion del empleo : Normas para la contratacion y terminacion de la relacion de trabajo (Spanish)
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?...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30130 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Author: Betcherman,Gordon,Whitehead, Tim [editor]
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Impact evaluation : Techniques for evaluating active labor market programs (English)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30131 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Author: Dar,Amit,Whitehead, Tim [editor]
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Impact evaluation : Techniques for evaluating active labor market programs : Etude d'impact : Techniques d'evaluation des programmes d'aide active a l'emploi (French)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30131 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Author: Dar,Amit,Whitehead, Tim [editor]
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Impact evaluation : Techniques for evaluating active labor market programs : Evaluacion de los efectos : Tecnicas para evaluar los programas activos del mercado de trabajo (Spanish)
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...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30131 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Author: Dar,Amit,Whitehead, Tim [editor]