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• Labor Markets for Inclusive Growth

  World Bank (Washington, DC, 2014-01-17)

  This policy note outlines short, and
 medium-term policy options for addressing critical
 challenges affecting labor markets in Mexico, and in
 particular labor productivity. As labor is the main source
 of income for most of the population, poverty is closely
 linked to underemployment and low wages. Yet labor markets
 have played a limited role in poverty reduction in Mexico.
 Labor income accounted for just 22 percent of the decline in
 poverty in Mexico over the last decade compared with 38
 percent in the rest of the region. Between the third quarter
 of 2008 and the third quarter of 2011, the labor income
 poverty index2 continued to decline in Brazil, Ecuador, and
 Peru but increased in Mexico. The equivalent measure
 produced by CONEVAL (Consejo Nacional de Evaluation), shows
 the labor poverty trend to be increasing through the first
 quarter of 2012. Finding the right bundle of policies to
 improve labor productivity and the functioning of the labor
 markets can serve to improve economic growth and welfare outcomes.
• Findings from the 2014 Labor Force Survey in Sierra Leone

  Paris School of Economics (PSE); Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (CES) ; Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); The World Bank ; The World Bank; Statistics Sierra Leone; Margolis, David; Rosas, Nina; Turay, Abubakarr; Turay, Samuel (HAL CCSDWorld Bank Publications, 2016)

  International audience
• In Search of Opportunities : How a More Mobile Workforce Can Propel Ukraine’s Prosperity (Vol. 1 of 2) : Summary Report

  World Bank (Washington, DC, 2013-02-07)

  Ukrainians do not move often, and when
 they do move, they don't necessarily go to areas with
 good jobs and high wages. Internal mobility is about half of
 what is expected when comparing Ukraine with other
 countries. The lack of mobility is remarkable, given the
 availability of more jobs and better wages in several
 Ukrainian cities. Too few people are taking advantage of
 economic opportunities, and as a result, Ukraine's
 structural transformation has stalled. This is a sharp
 contrast to many other countries in Eastern Europe, where
 the transition to a market economy has been accompanied by a
 shift from widely-dispersed industries to a concentration of
 capital and production in a few areas, and from low- to
 higher-productivity sectors. Labor has largely mirrored the
 movement of capital and production. In Ukraine, however,
 labor is not flowing as smoothly to areas of high
 production. This report examines the mobility of workers
 inside Ukraine and their willingness to physically relocate
 from one area or region to another in search of better
 economic opportunities. The report explores the patterns and
 trends of labor mobility in Ukraine as well as the drivers
 and constraints of that mobility, and derives policy
 implications from its findings. Second chapter of this
 volume offers evidence of how a mobile workforce benefits
 the economy. It shows how the economic transition in most of
 Eastern Europe has been accompanied by the significant
 concentration of capital and people in a few areas. This has
 not happened to the same extent in Ukraine. Third chapter
 shows that what little migration we see in Ukraine is not
 necessarily going to the leading regions. For internal
 migration to lead to growth and better living standards,
 workers have to move to the areas of the country where
 productivity and therefore, wages are high, and where
 unemployment is low. Third chapter more over examines the
 factors that prevent Ukrainians from moving. Fourth chapter
 offers recommendations for creating greater labor mobility
 in Ukraine. It explains how addressing the institutional
 bottlenecks that affect internal mobility will allow more
 people, especially the poor, to access better jobs,
 accelerating growth and enabling living standards to rise.