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East Asia Pacific at work : employment, enterprise, and well-being /
The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about one-third of the world's labor force. Levera...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
World Bank,
[2014]
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| Colección: | World Bank East Asia and Pacific regional report.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I
- 1. Introduction and Road Map
- The context for work in East Asia Pacific
- Has growth in East Asia Pacific been "jobless"?
- Road map to the report
- Note
- References
- 2. The Demand for and Supply of Labor and Human Capital
- The demand for work: A profile from firm surveys
- A profile of the labor force in East Asia Pacific: Who is working and where?
- Note
- References
- Spotlight 1 Work in the Informal Economy
- What is the informal economy?
- Why does it matter?
- How is informal employment measured?
- Informal employment in East Asia Pacific
- Notes
- References
- 3. Is Work in East Asia Pacific Transformational? Greater Productivity, Living Standards, and Social Cohesion
- Work and productivity
- Work and living standards
- Work and social cohesion
- Conclusion: Do not take the transformative role of work for granted
- Notes
- References
- Part II.
- 4. The Fundamentals
- Prices and exchange rates
- Public spending and taxation
- An enabling environment for enterprise?
- Are the "fundamentals" in East Asia Pacific pro-work?
- Annex 4A Supplementary data for chapter 4
- Notes
- References
- 5. Building Human Capital
- Progress in health and education
- Supply, demand, and skills gaps
- Why do skills gaps exist and persist?
- Policy priorities and examples of success in skills development
- Notes
- References
- 6. Labor Market Regulations, Interventions, and Institutions
- Regulations
- Interventions
- Institutions: Organized labor in East Asia Pacific
- The impact of labor policy on work and earnings
- Conclusions
- Annex 6A Supplementary Tables
- Notes
- References
- Part III
- 7. Priority Policy Challenges to Well-being from Work in East Asia Pacific
- The "jobs challenges" typology
- Country categorization by level of development
- Country categorization by demographics
- Country categorization by endowments.
- Country categorization by institutional factors
- Implications for policy makers concerned about work
- Notes
- References
- Spotlight 2 Past Jobs Strategies in East Asia: Could They Work Today?
- What exactly are employment
- or jobs
- strategies?
- East Asia's experience with employment strategies
- Are these strategies viable for emerging East Asia Pacific countries now?
- Note
- References
- 8. Well-being from Work in the Pacific Island Countries
- Employment challenges of the small Pacific island countries
- Five employment priorities for Pacific island countries
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- 9. A Region at a Crossroads
- What should an employment strategy set out to achieve?
- Remove biases that hurt working people
- Make labor regulation and social protection work for all working people
- Take proactive measures to address remaining failures and capture externalities
- Why should this approach to crafting employment strategies appeal to governments in East Asia Pacific?