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I: Setting the Scene Global and Regional Labor
Market Trends |
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Required
"An Overview of Labor Markets Worldwide:
Key Trends and Major Policy Issues". Gordon
Betcherman.
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Recommended
"Globalization, Growth, and Poverty - Building
and Inclusive World Economy " (pp. 104-120).
Paul Collier, David Dollar. |
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Recommended
"Globalization and Workers in Developing
Countries". Martin Rama. |
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II: Active Labor Market Policies |
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Required
"Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs): A Review
of the Evidence from Evaluations". Amit Dar,
Zafiris Tzannatos. |
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Required
"Case Study: Design of Active Labor Market
Programs (ALMPs) for BALMI". David
Fretwell.
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Required
"Evaluating Active Labor Market Programs
in Transition Economies". Christopher
O'Leary. |
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Parallel
Session on ALMPs in Eastern Europe
Recommended
"Manual on Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
in Transition Economies - Part II - Methods and
Uses of Evaluation". Christopher O'Leary,
Alena Nesporova, Alexander Samorodov. |
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Recommended
"Evaluating the Impact of Active Labor
Programs: Results of Cross Country Studies in
Europe and Central Asia ". David Fretwell,
Jacob Benus, Christopher O'Leary.
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Parallel
Session on Mexico's PROBECAT Program
Recommended
"The Impact of Mexico's Retraining Program
on Employment and Wages". Michelle Riboud,
Hong Tan. |
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Recommended
"Training for the Urban Unemployed: A Reevaluation
of Mexico's Training Program, Probecat".
Quentin Wodon, Mari Minowa. |
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Parallel
Session on LAC Trabajar Program
Recommended
"Assisting the Transition from Workfare to
Work: a Randomized Experiment ". Emanuela
Galasso, Martin Ravalion, Augustin Salvia. |
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Recommended
"Public Employment Programs Case Study: Argentina's
Trabajar Program ". Keith Eisenstadt. |
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Recommended
"Do Workfare Participants Recover Quickly
from Retrenchment?". Martin Ravallion,
Emanuela Galasso, Teodoro Lazo, Ernesto Philipp. |
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Parallel
Session on Retraining Programs in China
Recommended
"Has Training Helped Employ Xiagang in China?
A Tale from Two Cities". Benu Bidani,
Chorching Goh, Christopher O'Leary. |
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Parallel
Session on Targeting Employment Services: A Field
Experiment Evaluation
Recommended
"Using Statistical Assessment Tools to Target
Services to Work First Participants".
Randall Eberts. |
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Module
III: Passive Labor Market Policies
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Required
"Income Support Systems for the Unemployed: Issues
and Options". Milan Vodopivec, Dhushyanth
Raju. |
Paper |
Tables |
Recommended
"Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Assistance:
A Comparison". Wayne Vroman.
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Required
"Unemployment Insurance in Brazil: Unemployment
Duration, Wages and Sectoral Choices". Wendy
Cunningham.
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Recommended
"Household Risk, Self-Insurance and Coping Strategies
in Urban Argentina. Formal Markets: Unemployment
Insurance and Severance Pay". Wendy Cunningham.
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Required
"Mandatory Severance Pay: its Coverage and Effects
in Peru". Donna McIsaac, Martin Rama. |
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Required
"Securing our Future in a Global Economy" (chapter
6). David de Ferranti, Guillermo Perry, Indermit
Gill, Luis Servén, Francisco Ferreira,
Nadeem Ilahi, William Maloney, Martin Rama. |
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Required
"Options of Public Income Support for the Unemployed
in the Philippines". Jude H. Esguerra, Makoto
Ogawa, Milan Vodopivec. |
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Module
IV: Downsizing and Privatization
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Required
"Downsizing in the Public Sector". Alberto
Chong, Martin Rama. |
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Required
"Labor Redundancies and Privatization: What Should
Government Do?". Sunita Kikeri. |
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Required
"Public Sector Downsizing - An Introduction".
Martin Rama . |
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Required
Toolkit: Hands-on
Exercise Using Excel-based Application. Martin
Rama. |
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Recommended
"Mitigating the Social Impact of Privatization
and Enterprise Restructuring ". David Fretwell. |
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Recommended
"The Gender Implications of Public Sector Downsizing:
The Reform Program of Vietnam". Martin Rama. |
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Recommended
World
Bank Downsizing Projects. |
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Module
V: Human Capital, Skills Development and Training
Policies
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Recommended
"Paraguay Vouchers Revisited: Strategies
for the Development of Training Markets".
Caren Addis Botelho, Lara Goldmark. |
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Required
"Enterprise Training in Developing Countries:
Overview of Incidence, Determinants, and Productivity
Outcomes". Hong Tan, Geeta Batra. |
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Required
"Reorienting Training Policies and Systems
to Promote Shared Prosperity and Growth".
Lisa Lynch. |
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Recommended
"Report on the Impacts of Grassroots Management
Training in India". Lucy E. Creeveay,
Mangala Subramaniam, Momar Ndiaye. |
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Required
"Skills and Change: A Synthesis of Findings
of a Multi-Country Study of Vocational Education
and Training Reforms". Indermit Gill,
Amit Dar, Fred Fluitman. |
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Parallel
Session on Evaluating the Impact of Training Policies:
Case Studies and Lessons
Recommended
"Malaysia's HRDF: An Evaluation of its Effects
on Training and Productivity". Hong Tan. |
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Recommended
"Evaluating SME Training Programs: Some Lessons
from Mexico's CIMO Program". Hong Tan. |
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Parallel
Session on Informal Training Interventions: Lessons
from Africa
Recommended
"Training for Work in the Informal Sector
- New Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa".
Hans Christiaan Haan. |
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Recommended
"Working but not Well - Notes on the Nature
and Extent of Employment Problems in Sub-Saharan
Africa". Fred Fluitman. |
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Parallel
Session on Vocational Education and Training Reform:
Lessons of Experience
Recommended
"Vocational Education and Training Overview".
Indermit Gill, Amit Dar, Fred Fluitman. |
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Parallel
Session on Lifelong Learning Policies
Recommended
"European Training Foundation Background
Document". |
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Recommended
"Lifelong Learning: A Comprehensive Approach
to Education and Training Policies". |
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Recommended
"Communication from the Commission: Making
a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality".
European Commission. |
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Recommended
"Cross Country Report - The Consultation
on the Memorandum on Lifelong Learning in the
Candidate Countries". European Training
Foundation . |
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Recommended
"The European Employment Strategy - Investing
in People". European Commission, Directorate-General
for Employment, Industrial Relations and Social
Affairs. |
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Recommended
List of recommended websites for further information
on Life Long Learning. |
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Module
VI: The Informal Sector
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Required
"Informality Revisited ". William
Maloney. |
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Required
"Women in the Informal Sector: A Global Picture,
the Global Movement". Marta Alter Chen. |
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Required
"Globalization and the Informal Economy:
How Global Trade and Investment Impact on the
Working Poor". Marilyn Carr, Martha Alter
Chen. |
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Required
"Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A
Statistical Picture" (sections from draft
document). ILO. |
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Recommended
"The Home as the Factory Floor: Employment
and Reuneration of Home-based Workers". Wendy
Cunningham, Carlos Ramos Gomez. |
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Recommended
"Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case
of Homebased Workers ". Martha Chen,
Jennifer Sebstad, Lesley O'Connell. |
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Recommended
"Supporting Workers in the Informal Economy:
A Policy Framework". Martha Alter Chen,
Renana Jhabvala, Frances Lund. |
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Recommended
"Decent Work and the Informal Economy".
ILO. |
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Module
VII: Engendering Development
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Required
"Engendering Development - Executive Summary".
Elizabeth King, Andrew Mason. |
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Recommended
"Protecting Women and Promoting Equality
in the Labor Market: Theory and Evidence".
Yana van der Meulen-Rodgers. |
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Recommended
"Does Gender Inequality Reduce Growth and
Development? Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions".
Stephan Klasen. |
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Recommended
"Social Security Reform and Women's Pensions".
Alejandra Cox-Edwards . |
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Recommended
"The Gender Implications of Public Sector
Downsizing: The Reform Program of Vietnam".
Martin Rama . |
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Module
VIII: Labor Market Regulations, Core Labor Standards
and Labor Unions
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Required
"Employment Protection Regulations: Rules
for Hiring and Terminations". Gordon
Betcherman. |
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Required
"Labor Market Regulation: International Experience
in Promoting Employment and Social Protection".
Gordon Betcherman, Amy Luinstra, Makoto Ogawa. |
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Required
"Decent Work" and Development Policies".
Gary Fields. |
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Required
Patrialand Labor Code Reform Case Study. |
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Required
International Labor Standards: The Challenges
of the 21st Century. |
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Recommended
"ILO Declaration and Fundamental Principles
and Rights at Work". ILO. |
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Recommended
"Ratifications of the ILO Core Conventions
by Country". ILO. |
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Recommended
"Does Eurosclerosis Matter? Institutional
Reform and Labor Market Performance in Central
and Eastern European Countries in the 1990s".
Michelle Riboud, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo,
Carlos Silva-Jáuregui. |
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Module
IX: Child Labor
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Required
"Child Labor: Issues and Directions for the
World Bank". Peter Fallon, Zafiris Tzannatos. |
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Recommended
"Investigating Child Labor: Guidelines for
Rapid Assessment - A Field Manual". ILO. |
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Recommended
"Measuring and Analyzing Child Labor: Methodological
Issues". Bjørne Grimsrud. |
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Recommended
"The Understanding Children's Work (UCW)
Project ". Furio Rosati.
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Recommended
"Eliminating the Worst Forms of Child Labor
- A Practical Guide to ILO Convention No 182".
ILO. |
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The
background readings for Friday April 26 sessions
and for the Thursday May 2 Parallel Sessions on
Special Topics can be found under "Additional
Materials". |
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