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Employment and shared growth : rethinking the role of labor mobility for development

Paci, Pierella, World Bank, Serneels, Pieter M. (Pieter Maria)

2007

Overview

There is one asset that poor people have in abundance: labor. Thus, what distinguishes the poor from the non-poor in low income countries is, simply, their ability to sell labor at a good price. It should be of little surprise, then, that enhancing the poor's access to employment is increasingly recognized as key to development. But while the creation of \"good\" jobs for the poor has become a policy priority for many developing countries, the mechanisms by which employment stimulates growth and reduces poverty have, until now, not been well understood. This book aims to help fill that gap. Focusing on labor market mobility as a central mechanism for both growth and poverty reduction, it brings together contributions originally presented at a conference organized by the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Development Effectiveness department in June 2006. Using examples from all continents, these papers discuss why multi-segmented labor markets offer a good starting point for analysis, what role the informal sector plays in employment, whether self-employment is an engine of growth, how worker mobility affects income, and how firm dynamics affect both growth and employment through job creation and destruction.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: ADB / ADJUSTMENT COSTS / ADVERSE CONSEQUENCES / ADVERSE EFFECTS / ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY / ASSESSING LABOR MARKET / AUTONOMY / BUSINESS CYCLE / CLOSED ECONOMY / COMPETITIVE LABOR MARKETS / COMPETITIVE MARKET / COMPETITIVE MARKETS / COMPETITIVE MODEL / COMPETITIVENESS / Congresses / CONTRACT LABOR / COST OF LIVING / CREATIVE DESTRUCTION / CULTURAL CHANGE / DEFICITS / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS / DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS / DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS / DEVELOPMENT POLICY / DISSEMINATION / EARNING / EARNINGS LOSSES / ECONOMETRICS / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC MOBILITY / ECONOMIC POLICIES / EFFICIENCY WAGE THEORY / EMPLOYEE / EMPLOYMENT / EMPLOYMENT GENERATION / EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES / EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES / EMPLOYMENT POLICIES / EMPLOYMENT STATUS / EMPLOYMENT TRENDS / EXPENDITURES / FAIR / FAMILY LABOR / FAMILY MEMBERS / FAMILY RESOURCES / FEMALE LABOR / FEMALE LABOR FORCE / FIRM DYNAMICS / FIRM GROWTH / FIRM LEVEL / FIRM SIZE / FISCAL POLICY / FOREIGN WORKERS / GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT / GLOBAL POVERTY / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / HIGH WAGES / HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS / HOUSEHOLD ENTERPRISE / HOUSEHOLD LEVEL / HUMAN CAPITAL / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN RESOURCES / INCOME / INCOME DISTRIBUTION / INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS / INCOME INEQUALITY / INDUSTRIAL RELATION / INDUSTRIALIZATION / INDUSTRY WAGE / INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT / INFORMAL SECTOR / INSURANCE / INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS / INTERNATIONAL POLICY / INTERNATIONAL TRADE / INVENTORY / JOB CREATION / JOB DESTRUCTION / JOB SECURITY / JOB SEEKERS / JOB TURNOVER / JOBS / LABOR DEMAND / LABOR DISPUTES / LABOR ECONOMICS / LABOR FORCE / LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION / LABOR LAWS / LABOR MARKET / LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS / LABOR MARKET EFFICIENCY / LABOR MARKET INDICATORS / LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS / LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES / LABOR MARKET POLICIES / LABOR MARKET POLICY / LABOR MARKET REGULATION / LABOR MARKET REGULATIONS / LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION / LABOR MARKETS / LABOR MOBILITY / LABOR ORGANIZATION / LABOR PRODUCTIVITY / LABOR PROGRAMS / LABOR REGULATION / LABOR REGULATIONS / LABOR RELATIONS / LABOR SUPPLY / Labor supply -- Developing countries -- Congresses / LABOUR / LABOUR DEMAND / LABOUR MARKET / LABOUR MOBILITY / LABOUR OFFICE / LABOUR REALLOCATION / LEGAL STATUS / LEGISLATION / LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT / LEVELS OF EDUCATION / LIFELONG LEARNING / LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES / LOW-INCOME COUNTRY / MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS / MACROECONOMIC STABILITY / MANDATED BENEFITS / MANPOWER / MANPOWER POLICY / Manpower policy -- Developing countries -- Congresses / MARKET ANALYSIS / MARKET FORCES / MARKET SEGMENTS / MARKET STRUCTURE / MARKET THEORY / MARKET WAGE / MICROFINANCE / MIGRATION / MIGRATION POLICIES / MINIMUM WAGE / MINIMUM WAGES / MONETARY POLICY / MONOPSONY / NATIONAL LAWS / NATIONALS / NATURAL RESOURCE / NUTRITION / OCCUPATION / OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY / ORGANIZED LABOR / OUTPUTS / PAID WORKERS / PAYING JOBS / POLICY DISCUSSIONS / POLICY IMPLICATIONS / POLICY MAKERS / POLICY RESEARCH / POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER / POLITICAL ECONOMY / POOR PEOPLE / Poverty / Poverty -- Developing countries -- Congresses / POVERTY ALLEVIATION / POVERTY REDUCTION / POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY / PRECEDING SECTION / PRIMARY SOURCE / PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT / PRIVATE TRANSFERS / PRODUCTION FUNCTION / PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT / PRODUCTIVE FIRMS / PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH / PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT / REAL WAGE / REAL WAGES / RESPECT / RICHER COUNTRIES / RIGID LABOR MARKETS / RURAL DEVELOPMENT / RURAL EMPLOYMENT / SAFETY / SAFETY NET / SERVANTS / SERVICE DELIVERY / SKILL TYPE / SOCIAL BENEFITS / SOCIAL CAPITAL / SOCIAL POLICY / SOCIAL SECURITY / SOCIAL SERVICES / STANDARD OF LIVING / SUBSIDIARY / SURPLUS / SUSTAINABLE GROWTH / TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY / TRANSACTION COSTS / TRANSITION ECONOMIES / UNEMPLOYED / UNEMPLOYED PERSON / UNEMPLOYMENT / UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS / UNEMPLOYMENT RATE / UNIONS / UNSKILLED JOBS / UNSKILLED LABOR / URBAN AREAS / URBAN ECONOMY / URBAN EMPLOYMENT / URBAN EMPLOYMENT SURVEY / URBAN MIGRATION / URBAN POVERTY / WAGE DETERMINATION / WAGE DIFFERENTIALS / WAGE EMPLOYMENT / WAGE GAP / WAGE INEQUALITY / WORK FORCE / WORKER / WORKER PRODUCTIVITY / WORKERS / WORKING CONDITIONS / WORKING POOR / WORKING-AGE POPULATION
• ISBN: 9780821371077, 082137107X, 0821371088, 9780821371084