Documents & Reports

Jobs Umbrella Multi-donor Trust Fund Annual Report 2023-2024 (English)

This edition of the multi-donor trust fund (MDTF) annual report provides a comprehensive look at the progress and achievements of the fund under the three windows on: (a) jobs lending at scale; (b) measurement...

Global Jobs Indicators Database (JOIN) Manual : Methodology and Quality Checks : JOIN Database (English)

The Global Jobs Indicators Database (JOIN) provides information on labor market outcomes from countries across all income groups with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. The sources are in most...

The Two-Step Jobs Diagnostic Approach (English)

Good jobs are often a key economic issue in advanced and developing economies alike. Jobs outcomes that are socially sub-optimal, inefficient, or inequitable vary a great deal by country, but can include...

Bhutan - Second Green and Resilient Growth Development Policy Credit (English)

The Bhutan Second Green and Resilient Growth Development Policy Credit aims to (i) strengthen resilient and private sector-led growth through fiscal sustainability and enhanced access to finance and markets...

Jobs Diagnostics - World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) Benchmarking Tool (English)

This tool provides charts and tables of indicators from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES). It is intended to help analysts diagnose the key policy, institutional, or market failures causing sub optimal...

Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Wielkopolska (English)

Part of a three-region set of papers analyzing coal-related labor market challenges in Poland, this paper focuses on Wielkopolska, which is most advanced in the transition out of coal. Finding viable job...

The impact of ethnic diversity in bureaucracies : evidence from the Nigerian civil service (English)

The authors document the correlation between the workplace diversity of bureaucracies and public services delivered. The authors do so in the context of the federal civil service in Nigeria, the most important...

Turkey - Do job training programs help people find jobs? : Turquie - Les programmes de formation professionnelle aident-ils à trouver un emploi? (French)

Jobs are critical to ending the cycle of poverty because they give people the opportunity to support themselves and their families. Policymakers focused on helping people move into the workforce often...

Pakistan - Improvement to Financial Reporting & Auditing Project (PIFRA) (English)

Thailand - Secondary education for employment (Vol. 2 of 2) : Background papers (English)

The study aims at assisting the Government in undertaking an evaluation of the system of secondary education, and skills development, in order to plan the many complex decisions, and future international...

Unions can be bad - or good (English)

The note questions whether economic analyses, and country experiences allow generalizations, such as those from supporters of labor unions, who see these as a collective voice which enhance productivity...