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The skills for tomorrow's Jobs in Bangladesh attempts to address key skills challenges and identifyopportunities in the backdrop of fast technological and economic changes. It proposes mid to long-term strategic policy options that would contribute to economic growth and job creation in...
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, especially for high-skilled and productive employment, as well as improvements in human capital levels to ensure that citizens … are able to take advantage of employment opportunities. Currently, however, low human capital levels greatly limit the … productivity and employment outcomes of the population, as evidenced by the fact that a majority continues to work in subsistence …
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.Youth recognize that their lack of skills and experience are impediments to employment.The objective of this report is to assess youth … formal employment, this report has a particular focus on skill development in vocational trades and the informal sector. This … World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2013-2017. Both recognize that inadequate skills and vulnerable employment …
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This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. The authors identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries requires quality...
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authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … just for returns to education, but also for the wage setting process more generally. In particular, in civil-law countries …, returns to seniority are rewarded only after a certain age. Third, workers exercise some power in the wage setting process but …
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evaluating employment programs' outcomes; reviewing the role of labor market regulations in job creation; and reforming technical … the recent Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) and earlier Bank's work on youth employment, this report addresses labor …
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capitalize on the employment creation potential of the RE targets and the IGCEP, policy makers will have to anticipate changes in …), with indicative employment projections required for long-term planning …
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in Bulgaria. Compared to the EU27 averages, activity and employment rates have remained low, and Bulgaria has significant … employment even during the crisis and measures to retrain and up-skill the unemployed and those at risk of lay-off is an …-term measures during the economic crisis ideally combine efforts to keep workers in employment through temporary publicly subsidized …
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for low income workers. Expanding employment opportunities and addressing the deficits in skills of large segments of the … inform the discussions of the future of social and employment policy among policy makers and the Peruvian society at large. …
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Employment and skills are at the core of Europe 2020, the European Union's (EU) competitiveness strategy, and are … economic crisis and because important reforms in employment and education have not yet been completed. The Europe 2020 Romania … report discusses the key challenges currently faced by Romania in the area of productive employment, and proposes a set of …
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