الوثائق والتقارير

Como reimpulsar la reduccion de la pobreza y la desigualdad en Bolivia? Oportunidades para eliminar fuentes de vulnerbilidad y construir resiliencia (الإسبانية)

High Performing Firms in Turkey : Jobs and Productivity (الإنجليزية)

High-performing firms (HPFs) are those with rapid growth potential and are early movers with respect to the recognition and realization of sector-specific growth opportunities. HPFs are at the core of...

Firm Dynamics, Job Outcomes, and Productivity : South African Formal Businesses, 2010-14 (الإنجليزية)

The formal private sector has a key role to play in fostering growth and reducing unemployment in South Africa—strengthening its performance is therefore critical. This paper looks at firm behaviour, firm...

Firm Dynamics, Job Outcomes, and Productivity : African Formal Businesses, 2010-2014 (الإنجليزية)

The formal private sector has a key role to play in fostering growth and reducing unemployment in South Africa-strengthening its performance is therefore critical. This paper looks at firm behaviour, firm...

Pathways to Better Jobs in IDA Countries : Findings from Jobs Diagnostics (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (الفرنسية)

This report documents cross-country findings from analysis conducted by World Bank staff working on Jobs Diagnostics. It identifies some key insights for policy makers to take into account when designing...

Pathways to Better Jobs in IDA Countries : Findings from Jobs Diagnostics (Vol. 1 of 2) (الإنجليزية)

This report documents cross-country findings from analysis conducted by World Bank staff working on Jobs Diagnostics. It identifies some key insights for policy makers to take into account when designing...

Vietnam's Future Jobs : Leveraging Mega-Trends for Greater Prosperity (Vol. 2 of 4) : overview (الفييتنامية)

Vietnam's 50 million jobs are a cornerstone of its economic success. The transformation toward services and manufacturing, and impressive labor productivity and wage growth led to plunging poverty rates...

Vietnam's Future Jobs : Leveraging Mega-Trends for Greater Prosperity (Vol. 2 of 4) : overview (الإنجليزية)

Vietnam's 50 million jobs are a cornerstone of its economic success. The transformation toward services and manufacturing, and impressive labor productivity and wage growth led to plunging poverty rates...

Bangladesh jobs diagnostic (Vol. 1 of 2) : Overview (الإنجليزية)

This Jobs Diagnostic presents the characteristics and constraints of the labor market in Bangladesh, identifies the objectives of the jobs agenda, and proposes a policy framework to progress toward them...

Bangladesh jobs diagnostic (Vol. 2 of 2) : Main report (الإنجليزية)

This Jobs Diagnostic presents the characteristics and constraints of the labor market in Bangladesh, identifies the objectives of the jobs agenda, and proposes a policy framework to progress toward them...

Moldova poverty assessment 2016 : a jobs diagnostic for Moldova - 10 key facts (الإنجليزية)

Moldova has experienced rapid growth and increases in living standards in the past decade. The economy has grown by an average 5 percent a year in the past 15 years, while the national poverty rate declined...

Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality ? measuring the impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular (الإنجليزية)

Seguro Popular was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers'...

Gender and finance in Sub-Saharan Africa : are women disadvantaged ? (الإنجليزية)

This paper assesses whether there is a gender gap in the use of financial services by businesses and individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors do not find evidence of gender discrimination or lower...

Investment in job training : why are SMES lagging so much behind ? (الإنجليزية)

This paper analyzes the link between firm size and investment in job training by employers. Using a large firm level data set across 99 developing countries, the analysis shows that a strong and positive...

The investment in job training : why are SMEs lagging so much behind? (الإنجليزية)

This paper analyzes the link between firm size and the investment in job training by employers. Using a large firm level data set across 99 developing countries, we show that a strong and positive correlation...

The impact of the investment climate on employment growth : does Sub-Saharan Africa mirror other low-income regions ? (الإنجليزية)

Using survey data from 86,000 enterprises in 104 countries, including 17,000 enterprises in 31 Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper finds that average enterprise-level employment growth rates are...

Comparing Apples with....Apples : how to make (more) sense of subjective rankings of constraints to business (الإنجليزية)

The use of expert or qualitative surveys to rank countries’ business investment conditions is widespread. However, within the economic literature there are concerns about measurement error and endogeneity...

Big constraints to small firms' growth ? business environment and employment growth across firms (الإنجليزية)

Using data on more than 56,000 enterprises in 90 countries, this paper finds that objective conditions in the business environment vary substantially across firms of different sizes and that there are...

The incentives to invest in job training : do strict labor codes influence this decision? (الإنجليزية)

This paper studies the link between labor market regulations and the incentives of firms to invest in the human capital of their employees. The author's explore a firm level data set across several developing...

If on-the-job training is so important to competitiveness, why isn't there a better market for it (الإنجليزية)

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...