Employment and Development

Employment and Development

Author: Gary S. Fields

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0198815506

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This book brings together the contributions of 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics award winner Gary Fields to address global employment and poverty problems. The central questions in his work are how economic growth affects standards of living, how labor markets work in developing countries, and how different labor market policies affect well-being.


Employment, Technology and Development

Employment, Technology and Development

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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This Study, Conducted By Professor Sen For The Ilo In The 1970S Emphasizes The Use Of Social Benefit-Cost Analysis As A Tool To Evaluate Employment Policies And Optimal Resource Allocation In Developing Countries.


Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2020 Rebuilding Better

Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2020 Rebuilding Better

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9264446230

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The impact of COVID-19 on local jobs and workers dwarfs those of the 2008 global financial crisis. The 2020 edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development considers the short-term impacts on local labour markets as well as the longer-term implications for local development.


Employment and Development under Globalization

Employment and Development under Globalization

Author: S. Cohn

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781137001405

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Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations – by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil. Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East Asian model, and finds alternative policies that create jobs and reduce poverty.