Event: Policies for Jobs

This four week course aims to take a hard look at the challenges of the employment creation by examining both demand-side and supply-side factors and introduces participants to pragmatic policy prescriptions gathered from the developmental experience of other countries in the world. The course will examine sector specific growth-employment linkages, and will also provide some analysis of the low-skill, low-productivity, low-wage, sub-par equilibrium that traps a number of developing countries.

The course will also review relatively traditional employment creation policy prescriptions (such as increasing labor market flexibility, reforming regulations for employment protection, and improving investment climate), as well as the most recent knowledge and innovation-based, high value added strategies to generate quality job creation and sustained economic growth. On the supply-side, training and skills upgrading will be examined in detail. The course will also discuss longer-term measures to increase labor force participation rates, particularly those of women, and how to manage the relatively large inward and outward migration flows.

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