Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age /

• Main Author: Mazza, Jacqueline (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Industrial organization.; International economics.; Labor economics.; Development economics.; Economic growth.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Labor Economics.; International Economics.; Economic Growth.

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty – good jobs, schools, and training - mor...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Jobs and Job Search in Developing Countries: Nice Work if You Can Get It!
• 2 Employment and Labor Intermediation Services: What They Can and Cannot Do
• 3 Stage 1: Building Core Employment Services
• 4 Stage 2: From Employment to Labor Intermediation Services
• 5 A Stage 3? Labor Intermediation and the New Jobs Agenda for Development.