Format:
1 online resource (148 pages)
ISBN:
9780821371084
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082137107X
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9780821371077
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0821371088
Content:
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.
Content:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Rationale for This Volume -- The Links Among Employment, Growth, and Poverty: A Brief Overview of Existing Work -- Toward an Integrated Framework and the Role of Labor Mobility -- Five Topics at the Frontier -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Employment in Low-Income Countries: Beyond Labor Market Segmentation? -- Introduction -- Dualism and Segmentation in the History of Economic Thought -- Improving Policy-Relevant Labor Market Models -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Economic Performance: A View from the Middle East and North Africa Region -- Introduction -- Informal Sector: An Antipoverty Strategy or an Engine of Growth? -- A Comparative Profile of the Informal Sector -- Why Do Bad Jobs and Informal Jobs Overlap? -- Conclusion: The Dilemma of the Informal Sector -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Self-Employment: Engine of Growth or Self-Help Safety Net? -- Evidence Against Dynamism -- Two Groups of Microentrepreneurs -- Evidence that Incomes Can Be Increased -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Poverty and Earnings Mobility in Three African Countries -- Introduction -- What Are Earnings in Alternative Jobs? -- How Mobile Are Individuals between Different Types of Jobs? -- What Has Been Learned, and What Do We Need to Know? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Firm Dynamics, Productivity, and Job Growth -- Introduction -- Job Flows: Data and Measurement -- Role of Employer Size and Age in Job Flows in the United States -- Job Flows in Advanced, Emerging, and Transition Economies -- Effects of Creative Destruction on Productivity -- Missing Pieces-Self-Employment and the Informal Sector -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Employment in Low-Income Countries: Beyond Labor Market Segmentation?; Chapter 3 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Economic Performance: A View from the Middle East and North Africa Region; Tables; Chapter 4 Self-Employment: Engine of Growth or Self-Help Safety Net?; Figures; Chapter 5 Poverty and Earnings Mobility in Three African Countries; Chapter 6 Firm Dynamics, Productivity, and Job Growth; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821371077
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821371077
Language:
English
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