The challenges consist of creating jobs for and the skills in a youthful and increasingly better educated workforce, and raising the productivity of less-educated workers to meet the demands of the digital age. The book deals with a range of interrelated topics—the changing supply and demand for labor in relation to the shift of workers out of agriculture; urbanization and the growth of megacities; raising the quality of schooling for new jobs in the digital economy; and labor market policies to improve both labor standards and productivity.
- Executive Summary
- Improving Employment Outcomes and Productivity in Indonesia
- Labor Supply and Attachment to the Workforce
- Jobs, Wages, and Labor Market Segmentation
- Structural Transformation and the Release of Labor from Agriculture
- Urbanization and Labor Productivity in Indonesia
- Education, Skills, and Labor Productivity
- Labor Market Policies and Institutions in Indonesia
- Glossary of Indonesian Terms