: salaried employment rose one-third in this period from 23 percent in 2004 to 30 percent in 2011 (ILO, 2013). As of 2015 …

.Youth recognize that their lack of skills and experience are impediments to employment.The objective of this report is to assess youth … formal employment, this report has a particular focus on skill development in vocational trades and the informal sector. This … World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2013-2017. Both recognize that inadequate skills and vulnerable employment …

-thirds of the median wage. By this criterion, one in four jobs in Armenia falls into this category, which represents a …-productivity and low-earnings employment. To better understand skill shortages in Armenia, this report looks into the current demand … the newly available data from the World Bank's Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP) household and employer …

social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …