This book is a sequel to the World Banks World Development Report 2013 Jobs. The central message of that report was that job creation is at the heart of development. Jobs raise living standards and lift people out of poverty, they contribute to gains in aggregate productivity, and they may even foster social cohesion. In doing so, jobs may have spillovers beyond the private returns they offer to those who hold them. Poverty reduction is arguably a public good, making everybody better off higher productivity spreads across coworkers, clusters, and cities and social cohesion improves the outcomes of collective decisionmaking. But which jobs make the greatest contribution to development and what policies can facilitate the creation of more of these jobs? There is no universal answer it depends on the countrys level of development, demography, natural endowments, and institutions. This volume explores the diversity of jobs challenges and solutions through case studies of seven developing countries. These countries, drawn from four continents, represent seven different contexts a small island nation (St. Lucia), a resourcerich country (Papua New Guinea), agrarian (Mozambique), urbanizing (Bangladesh), and formalizing (Mexico) economies, as well as young (Tunisia) and aging (Ukraine) populations. Using methods drawn from several branches of economics and the social sciences more broadly and analyzing a wide range of data, the authors show the different ways in which jobs have...

Binding: Hardcover;324 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: KCF; Weight: 742 g; Dimensions: 262 x 212 x 24

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