Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies (eBook)

Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

Jacqueline Mazza (Autor)

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2016
152 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-48668-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs, schools, and training - more often go to the privileged and well-connected than to those who need them most. With jobs now at the top of development debates, this is a rare book on how to practically adapt one key labor market policy to very different developing and emerging country markets. It shows through examples how developing countries can build in stages from basic employment services to diverse labor intermediation services - opening up job listings, stimulating public-private partnerships, and making job connections for those who don't have a 'cousin Vinny who knows a guy'. This book is for policy practitioners, development organizations, and academics who are ready to think differently about one of the policies that needs to change so that developing economies can better meet the employment and higher skill challenges of the global age.

Jacqueline Mazza is currently Senior Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, teaching in Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy. She is a recognized expert in the field of labor markets and development, with over 25 years of experience. She served most recently as Principal Labor Markets Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank.

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This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs, schools, and training - more often go to the privileged and well-connected than to those who need them most. With jobs now at the top of development debates, this is a rare book on how to practically adapt one key labor market policy to very different developing and emerging country markets. It shows through examples how developing countries can build in stages from basic employment services to diverse labor intermediation services - opening up job listings, stimulating public-private partnerships, and making job connections for those who don't have a "e;cousin Vinny who knows a guy"e;. This book is for policy practitioners, development organizations, and academics who are ready to think differently about one of the policies that needs to change so that developing economies can better meet the employment and higher skill challenges of the global age.

Inhalt

1. Jobs and Job Search in Developing Countries: Nice Work if You Can Get It!2. Employment and Labor Intermediation Services: What They Can and Cannot Do3. Stage 1: Building Core Employment Services4. Stage 2: From Employment to Labor Intermediation Services 5. A Stage 3? Labor Intermediation and the New Jobs Agenda for Development

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 152 p. 5 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Active Labor Market Policy • Developing Countries • Development • Economic Development • Economics • emerging countries • Emerging Markets • Employment • employment policy • growth • Industrial Organization • International Economics • Jobs • Job Search • Labor
• ISBN-10: 1-137-48668-6 / 1137486686
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-48668-4 / 9781137486684