This study describes how jobs are perceived in Jianyang, China Sichuan, by exploring beyond the earnings, health benefits, and pension plans that characterize a ???good job??? to focus on the features that increase living standards, productivity growth, and social cohesion. Tremendous changes in...

This study shows how jobs are perceived in Risaralda, Colombia, by exploring beyond the earnings, health benefits, and pension plans that characterize a ???good job??? to focus on the features that increase living standards, productivity growth, and social cohesion. Colombia has experienced...

This study shows how jobs are perceived in Sierra Leone by exploring beyond earnings, health benefits, and pension plans that characterize a ???good job??? to focus on the features that increase living standards, productivity growth, and social cohesion. Since the civil war (1991???2002), Sierra...

This paper reviews legal and other instruments aimed at addressing labor market discrimination in developing countries in the context of understanding jobs as the connection between the three identified transformations at the center of economic development: living standards, productivity gains,...

This study draws on a large qualitative dataset from Afghanistan, Liberia, Sudan and West Bank and Gaza to explore the effects of violent armed conflict on gender norms, men's and women's perceptions of agency and empowerment, and the strong normative frameworks that surround economic...

This paper provides new cross-country evidence on the impact of cognitive skills, as measured by international achievement tests, on subsequent youth employment outcomes. In our initial analysis, we find that high average scores are strongly associated with increases in school enrollment and...

This study examines whether jobs created as a result of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows can be considered to be good jobs both from the worker???s and the country???s perspective. For the worker, such jobs are likely to pay higher wages than jobs in indigenous firms in developing...

This document presents results of a descriptive analysis of income-generating activities of 19 countries based on the Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) database. The RIGA database uses the rural sample of these countries??? nationally representative living standards surveys, while the...

This paper attempts to quantify the degree of inequality of opportunity in labor market outcomes for a selection of countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. We adapt the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) methodology that has been widely used to study opportunities of children to...

This paper summarizes the existing literature on the links between labor and poverty reduction. The vast majority of studies find that more and better paid work is critical in lifting people out of poverty. Studies analyzing poverty dynamics and economic mobility find that improved returns to...