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World Bank Resources World Bank PovertyNet — PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners. World Bank Labor Markets Group — The Labor Markets Group identifies key issues for client countries and provides staff with up-to-date and accessible information on labor market interventions. The Group’s strength is its capacity to bring together, evaluate, and disseminate empirical, cross-country experience and best practices. World Bank Institute - Labor Market Policies — World Bank Institute thematic learning programs include courses, seminars, and policy advice on topics that are important to the international development process. Through the Labor Market Policies program WBI aims to provide client countries and Bank staff with a solid grounding in key issues that arise in the labor market as well as in the design and execution of government policies to address them. The site contains information on upcoming events, workshops, conferences, e-learning activities and other useful resources. World Bank Data & Statistics - Labor and Employment — This website provides high quality national and international statistics about Labor and Employment. World Bank Labor & Employment Policy Research Working Papers — The Document Search function enables you to find World Bank Policy Research Working Papers related to employment and labor economics.
Gender & Development — Gender equality is a core element of the Bank’s strategy to reduce poverty. The Gender and Development Group’s has commenced a substantive work program to increase the analytical work on the linkages between increased gender equality and greater economic growth. Current priority research in this area involves looking at the gender dimensions of migration flows, labor markets and firm productivity. Investment Climate — The Investment Climate Unit supports the Bank Group’s work on investment climates, with teams helping to develop and use diagnostic tools, including Investment Climate Assessments and Value-Chain Studies, to assess key elements of a country’s investment climate.
International Institutions - ILO
- Employment Sector
- General Director
- ILO LABORSTA(Laborsta database of Labour indicators)
- ILO KILM(Key indicators of the labour market)
- OECD
- Other Institutions
Working Papers Archives/ Search Engines - EconLit — The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world.
- JSTOR — JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization providing access to important scholarly journals.
- Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) — A decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
- ScienceDirect — Users can access more than 8 million full-text articles and more than 75 million abstract records, from all fields of science including labor economics.
- WebEc — World Wide Web Resources in Economics (WebEc) is an effort to categorize free information on economics on the WWW.
Academic and Research Institutions - Africa
- Europe and Central Asia
- EURYDICE(Information Network on Education in Europe) - Brussels, Belgium
- Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training- Bonn, Germany
- Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti - Milan, Italy
- IDR (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) - Paris, France
- IDS (Institute of Development Studies) - Brighton, UK
- IFS (The Institute for Fiscal Studies) - London, UK
- ILR School (Cornell University) - Ithaca, NY
- Institute of Development Studies (Work and Vulnerability Research Theme) - Brighton, UK
- ISAE(Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses) - Rome, Italy
- IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) - Bonn, Germany
- London School of Economics- London, UK
- The Labour Economics Gateway- Luxemburg
- Tor Vergata University - CEIS (Centre for Economic and International Studies) - Rome, Italy
- Latin America
- North America
- Canadian Evaluation Society- Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Center for Occupational Research and Development- Waco, TX
- Cornell University - (Department of Economics) - Ithaca, NY
- Harvard Business School- Boston, MA
- IDRC Globalization, Growth and Poverty Research Program - Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Department of Economics) - Cambridge, MA
- National Bureau of Economic Research- New York, NY
- Stanford(Department of Economics) - Stanford, CA
- Yale(Department of Economics) - New Haven, CT
- UCLA- Los Angeles, CA
- University of Pennsylvania(UPENN Department of Economics) - Philadelphia, PA
- South Asia
Government Institutions - Ministries of Labor
- Africa
- East Asia and Pacific
- Europe and Central Asia
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Middle East and North Africa
- North America
- South Asia
- National Statistical Institutions
- Africa
- East Asia and Pacific
- Europe and Central Asia
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Middle East and North Africa
- North America
- South Asia
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