Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies
Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age
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Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies
Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures and Boxes
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Jobs and Job Search in Developing Countries: Nice Work if You Can Get it!
- Chapter 2: Employment and Labor Intermediation Services: What Are They and What Are They Good For?
- Chapter 3: Stage 1: Building Core Employment Services
- Chapter 4: Stage 2: From Employment to Labor Intermediation Services
- Chapter 5: A Stage 3? Labor Intermediation and the New Jobs Agenda for Development
- Bibliography
- Index