Labor Market Programs
Labor market programs support the development of job-relevant skills and workers' retraining, particularly the low-skilled and marginalized. They also facilitate employment. Key sectors that may serve as entry points for promoting and expanding labor market programs include education and infrastructure (energy, information and communication technology, water, and transport).
Labor market programs may include:
- Active labor market policies and programs (pre-employment training, skills development and upgrading, public works, matching supply and demand for labor)
- Passive labor market policies and programs (compliance with core labor standards, job security provisions, improving working conditions)
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The Social Protection Indicator for the Pacific: Assessing Progress
This publication provides updates on social protection indicators for 13 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. -
Pacific Economic Monitor: May 2019 – Special 10th Anniversary Issue
This publication provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues to date. -
New Technology and Emerging Occupations: Evidence from Asia
This paper explores how technology affects labor market outcomes in Asia through the creation of new types of work. -
Targeted Cash Transfers, Credit Constraints, and Ethnic Migration in the People’s Republic of China
This paper studies the effects of targeted cash transfers on rural–urban migration of Han and ethnic minority households in the People’s Republic of China. -
Gender Equality Results Case Study: India – Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab
This case study examines the gender aspects of the Infrastructure Development Investment Program for Tourism in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. -
Asian Development Review: Volume 36, Number 1
This edition covers intergenerational mobility of families in slums of Jakarta, exports and imports of Thailand, and the effects of foreign direct investment on the productivity of 15 emerging market economies, among others. -
Good Jobs for Inclusive Growth in Central Asia and the South Caucasus: Regional Report
This study explores prospects for inclusive growth in the Central Asia and the South Caucasus region and highlights the central role played by the creation of good jobs. -
The Employment Effects of Technological Innovation, Consumption, and Participation in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Developing Asia
This paper examines how employment responded to consumption, trade, and technological advances in developing Asia during the period 2005–2015. -
The Future of Work: Regional Perspectives
This study considers how technology is likely to change labor markets in Africa; Developing Asia; Emerging Europe, Central Asia, and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean; and Latin American and the Caribbean in the coming years. -
Expected Work Experience: A New Human Capital Measure
This paper explains a proxy measure for work experience that uses readily available information on labor force participation rates by age and gender and supports greater understanding of the gender wage gap.