The Jobs Group MANDATE AND Work program Mary Hallward-Driemeier April 18, 2016

MANDATE Jobs Strategies We support client countries, GPs, and CMUs in the design and implementation of multi-sectoral programs that address specific jobs challenges to create more, better, and inclusive jobs. MORE Creation More hours Entrepreneurship Less excess churning BETTER Job quality Productivity Earnings Working conditions Access to social insurance Jobs Strategies INCLUSIVE Youth, gender, B40 Incentives Mobility (regions, sectors, jobs, out of inactivity/unemployment) Key to delivering on jobs is extent to which countries are undergoing transformations: structural (improving what you do); spatial (where you do it) and modernization (how you do it).

WORK PROGRAM SOLUTIONS DIAGNOSTICS MEASUREMENT K M COUNTRY WORK JDs (macro, firms, individuals, institutions) Data (I2D2, spatial, jobs watch) K M COUNTRY WORK Surveys (VCs, tracers) Modeling (CGEs, SimPLE) M&E (Porfolio, indicators, admin systems) Analytical work, pilots, IE: Informality Private sector and VCs development Spatial mismatches ICTs and jobs FCV and jobs Jobs for youth Jobs Portal Training Workshops BBLs & Seminars Knowledge Products

Policy implications: Enabling economic transformations and jobs STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION: Importance of expanding access to markets (infrastructure, inter-firm linkages, trade, fair competition), technology, finance and skills to facilitate investments and hiring in new activities, raising productivity Especially important now IDA countries face tighter global capital and lower commodity prices for exports Capital intensive and natural resource sectors and enclave approaches can limit potential productive shifts and limit the inclusiveness of growth (Dutch disease) SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION / URBANIZATION Larger markets, agglomeration effects and specialization can raise productivity and earnings Spatial mismatch of jobs and where people are need to be addressed within cities too (urban planning, transportation, housing) MODERNIZATION Stronger property rights, land titling, access to finance and expanded access to larger markets can raise firm productivity, encourage hiring and/or raise wages; Weak governance or excess regulations can weaken firm entry and the reallocation of resources across firms and sectors, limiting the potential for more and better jobs Lead firms can support formalization through their value chains, and can have market incentives to do so where suppliers are organized, and have improved storage and access to price information, trade and transport logistics Appropriate labor market regulations can improve working conditions and access to social protections Labor mobility (infrastructure, skills, access to finance, housing, matching services) is needed to ensure people can take advantage of new opportunities and fully utilize human capital’s potential

Jobs and economic transformations in IDA18 Diagnostics to SCDs… Jobs diagnostics and tools to inform SCDs …& Operations Strength ability to have multi-sectoral interventions that could address complex jobs challenges and support economic transformation(s). Greater focus on having interventions informed by job priorities and impacts M&E Strengthen jobs M&E tools to learn about what works Build M&E into administrative data of projects Evaluate and learn from projects Address Data Gaps Include labor variables in household surveys Improve statistical capacity building for the collection and analysis of enterprise census data and national accounts firm value added surveys; In FCV countries, expand data collection on ways that uncertainty, risk and governance affects decisions to invest, hire and join the labor force.

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