Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 103
Cover Image
Myanmar Pay, Compensation, and Human Resource Management Review
World Bank Group - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645141
Cover Image
Fostering skills in Cameroon : inclusive workforce development, competitiveness, and growth
Sosale, Shobhana - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Introduction and background -- The macro aggregation-accumulation model -- Enterprises and workforce -- Key economic sectors for jobs, value addition, competitiveness, and growth -- Skills accumulation and the stock and flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245237
Cover Image
Public School Teacher Management in Sri Lanka : Issues and Options
Raju, Dhushyanth - 2016
Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students who have completed higher secondary and tertiary education, but also that all students obtain a much better education. Raising teacher effectiveness is considered as crucial for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246240
Cover Image
Assessing Systems for Hiring and Deploying Teachers in the Philippines
World Bank Group - 2016
Over the last decade, research from many different countries has demonstrated the important role played by teachers in improving students' learning and increasing their competencies. Studies from countries as different as the US and Indonesia have shown the enormous benefits that follow from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644502
Cover Image
Women Wavemakers : Practical Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Women in Coding Bootcamps
World Bank Group - 2018
Coding bootcamps have recently emerged as a promising approach to equipping individuals with the skills needed to thrive in digital economies. But despite the potential of these training programs to prepare graduates to compete in a changing global labor market, women often participate at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645458
Cover Image
What Employers Actually Want : Skills in Demand in Online Job Vacancies in Ukraine
Muller, Noel - 2019
Online job vacancies from a Ukrainian website were explored to assess the skills that employers look for among their new hires. The demand for cognitive, socioemotional, and technical skills across a range of medium- and high-skilled occupations were assessed. Most employers highly demand all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646450
Cover Image
Civil Service Recruitment in Comoros : A Case of Political Clientelism in a Decentralized State
Rose, Jonathan - 2015
Professional civil service recruitment is a core component of governance for development, as it is necessary for … ambitious mixed method approach, this study seeks to provide a political economy analysis of civil service recruitment in … largest recruitment in the past decade, due in part to the interplay of informal institutions such as political clientelism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245704
Cover Image
Labor Drops : Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2016
The majority of enterprises in many developing countries have no paid workers. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor would benefit such firms. In the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246556
Cover Image
Youth Employment, Recruitment and a Youth-Targeted Wage Subsidy : Findings from a South African Firm Level Survey
Schoer, Volker - 2011
Employment issues are the most serious problems facing South Africa currently. Among these are the problems of unemployment, as well as underemployment or lack of decent work for the already employed, compounded by labour markets that are generally less than efficient in job search and matching....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247787
Cover Image
A field experiment on the role of socioemotional skills and gender for hiring in Turkey
Nas Özen, Efşan; Hut, Stefan; Levin, Victoria; Muñoz … - 2020
A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered. This study seeks to address this question and further investigates whether socioemotional skill signals in job applicants' resumes have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229129