Jobs & Social Protection

Jobs & Social Protection 2012-2013

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WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013

Jobs

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MORE AND BETTER JOBS IN SOUTH ASIA

Mar 2012 358 pages 9780821389126 Paperback $39.95

Oct 2012 300 pages 9780821395752 Paperback $35.00 9780821396209 Hardback $60.00

Explains and analyses the connection between jobs and important dimensions of economic and social development. It explores the notionz of a ‘good job’ in that some jobs do more for economic and social development than others.

FROM RIGHT TO REALITY

Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

South Asia has created nearly 800,000 jobs per month during the last decade. Robust economic growth in large parts of the region has created better jobs - those that pay higher wages for wage workers and reduce poverty for the self-employed. This book discusses jobs in South Asia.

NONFINANCIAL DEFINED New CONTRIBUTION PENSION SCHEMES IN A CHANGING PENSION WORLD Volume 1: Progress, Lessons, and Implementation

Edited by Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer, and David Robalino

Helena Ribe, David Robalino and Ian Walker

GENDER DISPARITIES IN AFRICA’S LABOR MARKET

Edited by Jorge Saba Arbache, Alexandre Kolev, and Ewa Filipiak Aug 2010 452 pages 9780821380666 Paperback $25.00

Offers a comparative analysis based on standardized nationally representative survey-data for several African countries.

JOB CREATION IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN Recent Trends and Policy Challenges

Carmen Pagés, Gaëlle Le Borgne Pierre, and Stefano Scarpetta Jul 2009 480 pages 9780821376232 Paperback $40.00

Analyses how growth and job creation in the region’s economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity growth and the creation of “good” jobs, and the relative importance and role of labour market policies in improving labour market outcomes in the region.

Industrial Organization Models and Investment Products Gregorio Impavido, Esperanza Lasagabaster, and Manuel García-Huitrón Jun 2010 206 pages 9780821382769 Paperback $30.00

Discusses the main implications for the functioning of mandatory defined contribution pensions of consumers’ inability to make rational choices; describes how jurisdictions have tried to address these problems through ad hoc policy interventions; and proposes new policy directions in the areas of industrial organization models and investment products to address these concerns more effectively.

REFORMING SEVERANCE PAY An International Perspective

Edited by Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec

Jul 2012 412 pages 9780821388488 Paperback $39.95

Mar 2012 450 pages 9780821386873 Paperback $39.95

Presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets.

NEW POLICIES FOR MANDATORY DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PENSIONS

Nov 2011 316 pages 9780821388495 Paperback $30.00

Pensions are under scrutiny worldwide in view of increasing life expectancy and adverse demographics. This volume offers an overview of the different approaches and experiences in Western and emerging economies and an analysis from the angle of gender, equity, solvency and stability.

NONFINANCIAL DEFINED New CONTRIBUTION PENSION SCHEMES IN A CHANGING PENSION WORLD Volume 2: Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability Edited by Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer, and David Robalino Aug 2012 632 pages 9780821394786 Paperback $39.95

Nonfinancial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes are now in their teens. This new anthology serves to review their adolescence with the aim of contributing to a successful adulthood. It offers a deep and comprehensive review of the experience of countries where NDC schemes have been in place for a decade or more, takes stock of the discussions of the place of NDCs in the world of pension reform, and addresses in detail important issues related to implementation and design.

Termination pay includes severance, mass redundancy, or end-of-service pay and is widely used as income protection for the unemployed. This book reviews such arrangements wordwide, analyzing their performance and recent reform trends to improve efficiency and redistributive impact.

THE RIGHT SKILLS FOR THE JOB?

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Rethinking Training Policies for Workers

Edited by Rita Almeida, Jere Behrman, and David Robalino

Jul 2012 184 pages 9780821387146 Paperback $25.00

Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. This report brings new ideas on how to build and upgrade job relevant skills, focusing on three types of training programs.

Working Papers / World Bank Studies THE HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH CRISIS IN ZAMBIA

INCENTIVES AND DYNAMICS IN THE ETHIOPIAN HEALTH WORKER LABOR MARKET

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN THE GAMBIA

Christopher Herbst, Monique Vledder, Karen Campbell, Mirja Sjablom, and Agnes Soucat

Dec 2010 92 pages 9780821383582 Paperback $30.00

Jul 2011 128 pages 9780821388112 Paperback $20.00

An Outcome of Health Worker Entry, Exit, and Performance within the National Health Labor Market Apr 2011 96 pages 9780821387610 Paperback $20.00

Published to communicate the results of the World Bank’s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion, this paper compiles recent evidence on the Zambian health labour market and provides some baseline information on HRH to support the government as it addresses its HRH challenges.

William Jack, Joost De Laat, Kara Hanson, and Agnes Soucat

This paper uses detailed data gathered from nearly 1,000 health workers to examine the incentives and constraints that health workers face when choosing where to work, the likely responses of workers to alternative incentive packages, and the longer term performance of the health worker labour market.

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Nathalie Lahire, Richard Johanson, and Ryoko Tomita Wilcox

Aims to gain a better understanding of youth employment outcomes in the hope of crafting more sound and responsive policies. The first part of this study provides an analysis of how youth spend their time and the determinants of this time use, while the second provides an overview and analysis of the technical and vocational education and training sector.

Directions in Development Series ACHIEVING EFFECTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR ALL IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN From Right to Reality

David A. Robalino, Helena Ribe, and Ian Walker

THE ELDERLY AND OLD AGE SUPPORT IN RURAL CHINA

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Fang Cai, John Giles, Philip O’Keefe, and Dewen Wang Mar 2012 160 pages 9780821386859 Paperback $25.00

A PRIMER ON POLICIES FOR JOBS

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Raj Nallari, Breda Griffith, Yidan Wang, Soamiely Andriamananjara, Derek H.C. Chen, and Rwitwika Bhattacharyal Jan 2012 168 pages 9780821389041 Paperback $25.00

Jul 2010 136 pages 9780821383988 Paperback $20.00

Highlights the interaction between social protection programs and labour markets in Latin America. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, for health, for unemployment risks and for anti-poverty safety nets.

While poverty has fallen dramatically in China since the start of reforms, there are concerns that the rural elderly may not be benefiting from growth to the same extent as young people and the urban elderly. This provides empirical analysis of the welfare and living conditions of the rural elderly in China since the early 1990s. It then examines the evolution of the rural pension system over the past two decades, examining the implementation experience and options strengthening old age protection.

ANNUITIES AND OTHER RETIREMENT PRODUCTS

EVALUATING THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF PENSION FUNDS

PUTTING NIGERIA TO WORK

Jan 2010 296 pages 9780821381595 Paperback $35.00

Assesses the impact of the strong economic growth on employment. This study addresses the question of what Nigeria could do to increase the availability of quality jobs and reduce rising youth unemployment, and proposes a strategy to sustain and further accelerate Nigeria’s growth performance and enhance quality of employment.

Edited by Richard Hinz, Rudolph Heinz P., Pablo Antolin, and Juan Yermo

Designing the Payout Phase

Roberto Rocha, Dimitri Vittas, and Heinz P. Rudolph Mar 2011 352 pages 9780821385739 Paperback $40.00

Focuses on the policy issues and constraints confronting the design of the payout phase and examines risk factors for both pensioners and providers. It then scrutinizes the pension systems of five representative countries - Australia, Chile, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland- which provide a variety of experiences and policy lessons applicable to other reforming countries. A comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between the systems in these countries rounds out the investigation.

The increasing role of individual pension savings accounts requires the development of better performance measurement techniques for these funds to provide retirement income to aging populations worldwide.

This book reviews the pension funds performance and identifies benchmarks that allow a better evaluation of their actual performance.

GROWING OLD IN AN OLDER BRAZIL

THE CASH DIVIDEND

Implications of Population Aging on Growth, Poverty, Public Finance and Service Delivery

Marito Garcia and Charity M. T. Moore

Sep 2011 304 pages 9780821388020 Paperback $35.00

The Rise of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michele Gragnolati, Ole Hagen Jorgensen, Romero Rocha, and Anna Fruttero

Jan 2012 436 pages 9780821388976 Paperback $35.00

Assimilates results of a review of the recent use of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from sources including program documentation, policy papers, peer-reviewed publications, and interviews, it paints a picture of the evolution and current state of cash transfers, which include unconditional and conditional cash transfers and emergency- and development-focused transfers.

CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN CRISIS

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Protecting and Promoting Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks

Investigates the impact of demographic changes on several dimensions of the Brazilian economy and society particularly its increasingly aging population. It does so in a comprehensive and systematic way that captures the broad complexity of issues, from economic growth to poverty, from public financing of social services and transfers to savings, from employment to health and long-term care, and their inter-relations.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND New EMPLOYMENT CREATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Edited by Mattias Lundberg & Alice Wuermli

Antonio Estache, Elena Ianchovichina, Robert Bacon, and Ilhem Salamon

Describes the impact of aggregate shocks on human development, and the subtle and intricate settings and pathways through which individuals can be affected.

Depending on the timing, duration, transmission mechanisms, and context, the consequences for children’s physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development may be costly and irreversible.

Assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining and spreading the momentum in infrastructure will be important to support future growth and job creation.

Jul 2012 320 pages 9780821395479 Paperback $34.95

CHINA’S PENSION SYSTEM A Vision

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Mark C. Dorfman et al

Oct 2012 304 pages 9780821395400 Paperback $34.95

This report has been prepared to develop a medium term vision of a holistic framework that could be realised by 2040 for strengthening old age income protection in China which is consistent with the principles outlined in the 12 characters and design options towards achieving it. The main body of this report outlines this vision while the annexes provide the deeper analysis and context which underpins the recommendations contained herein.

Nov 2012 112 pages 9780821396650 Paperback $25.95

Recent events have required labour economists to rethink their approach toward the markets. The global patterns discussed in this book include: the global economic crisis of 2008-2009; a rapidly changing demographic division; increasing youth unemployment rates (fuelling movements in places like the Middle-East); and an increasingly multi-polar world.

A Strategy for Employment and Growth Edited by Volker Treichel

Jun 2010 300 pages 9780821380727 Paperback $30.00

SKILLS FOR THE LABOR MARKET IN INDONESIA Trends in Demand, Gaps, and Supply

Emanuela Di Gropello, Aurelien Kruse, and Prateek Tandon Mar 2011 288 pages 9780821386149 Paperback $35.00

Reviews the main characteristics of - and trends in - demand for skills in Indonesia. It seeks to document the existence of a possible skills mismatch between employer demands and the available supply, the contribution of the education and training sector to this mismatch, and possible measures to improve the education and training system’s responsiveness to what the labour market and the economy need.

STRIVING FOR BETTER JOBS

The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa

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Roberta Gatti, Diego Angel-Urdinola, Joana Silva, and Andras Bodor Aug 2012 320 pages 9780821395356 Paperback $34.95

While economic growth has been sustained for a number of years in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this has succeeded, at best, in generating low-quality, informal jobs. While there is a great deal of heterogeneity across countries, informality in MENA is widespread, and some countries in the region are amongst the most informal economies in the world. The book looks at informality through a human development angle and focuses specifically on informal employment.

THE JOBS CRISIS

Household and Government Responses to the Great Recession in Eastern Europe and Central Asia M. Ihsan Ajwad

Mar 2011 136 pages 9780821387429 Paperback $20.00

The report examines how governments can improve their crisis responses by making automatic stabilizers more responsive and broad based; adjusting program parameters to the conditions on the ground; and starting new programs to fill coverage gaps that emerge. It also concludes that, to enable an efficient and flexible crisis response, governments can benefit from fiscal discipline during good times and reliable and timely monitoring systems.

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