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Back to work : growing with jobs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia /
Over the last decade, significant global and regional forces including changes in technology, trade patterns, and business practices, with a steady shift in value added production and employment toward knowledge-intensive activities and services such as finance, the hospitality industry, and the ret...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
The World Bank,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Europe and Central Asia reports.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; The Employment Problem in Europe and Central Asia; Figures; ES. 1 Labor Force Participation (Left) and Unemployment Rate (Right); ES. 2 Average Years of Lost Potential Employment for an Individual, circa 2010; How Did the Region Get Here?; ES. 3 Job Creation and Job Destruction Rates, 2001-09; What Was the Impact of the Crisis?; What Can Be Done to Create More and Better Jobs in the Region?; ES. 4 Too Many 15-Year-Olds in the Region Remain Functionally Illiterate, 2009; Tables.
- ES. 1 Diverse Policy Reform AgendasBibliography; Overview; Introduction; Confronting the Jobs Challenge: The Transition Legacy, Demographics, and the Crisis Aftermath; 0.1 The Employment Payoff to Reforms during the Boom Years Often Materialized with a Lag and Mostly among Advanced Modernizers; 0.2 Many Years of Potential Employment Lost, Especially among Older Workers and Women, 2010; 0.1 The Importance of the Transition Legacy and Demographics: Country Typology; Enterprises and Job Creation; 0.3 Prior to the Crisis, Advanced Modernizers Combined High Job Creation and Low Job Destruction.
- 0.4 High Latent Entrepreneurship but Low Rates of Startups in the Region in 2010Developing the Skills for the Job; 0.5 Skills of Older Cohorts Are at Risk of Obsolescence in Several Countries in the Region; 0.6 Too Many 15-Year-Olds in the Region Remain Functionally Illiterate, 2009; 0.7 Tertiary Education Delivers High Average Returns in Most Countries; Making Work Pay and Jobs Accessible; 0.8 The Costs of Moving Out of Social Assistance or Unemployment Benefits Could Be High, Especially for Low-Wage Earners and Part-Time Workers, 2010.
- 0.9 Women Earn Less Than Men in Ways Not Explained by Education, Age, Location, Family Structure, or Participation Decisions, 2009-110.10 A Diverse Agenda on Disincentives and Barriers to Employment in the Region; Leading Workers to Better Jobs; 0.11 The Population in Europe and Central Asia Is Less Internally Mobile Than in the Rest of the World, 2009; 0.12 Relatively Large Regional Disparities in Labor Productivity, 2002 and 2009; A Diverse Jobs Policy Agenda; 0.2 Diverse Policy Reform Agendas; Notes; Bibliography; 1. Jobs in Europe and Central Asia: The Role of the Legacy and Demographics.
- IntroductionThe Jobs Challenge in ECA; 1.1 Strong Economic and Productivity Growth in Early 2000s Slowed Due to the Crisis; 1.2 Significant Across-the-Board Reform Efforts; 1.3 Rapid Real Wage Growth Characterized the Early 2000s in ECA; 1.4 Limited Employment Creation Due to a Weak Relationship between Economic and Employment Growth and to the Crisis; 1.5 Labor Force Participation and Employment Rates Are Low and Unemployment Is High; 1.6 Cross-Country Differences in Growth and Labor Market Performance; Thinking about Jobs in ECA.