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

2. 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).

3. WORK PROGRAM SOLUTIONS DIAGNOSTICS MEASUREMENT K M COUNTRY WORK
JDs (macro, firms, individuals, institutions)
Data (I2D2, spatial, jobs watch)
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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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. For more information, visit worldbank.org/jobsanddevelopment
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