This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs, schools, and training -...

Jobs and job search in developing countries: nice work if you can get it! -- Employment and labor intermediation services: what are they and what are they good for? -- Stage 1: Building core employment services -- Stage 2: From employment to labor intermediation services -- A stage 3? Labor...

Economic globalization has intensified since the 1980s and created faster channels of international interdependence and an accelerating technology race. In this new asymmetric world economy the EU is facing a dynamic and flexible US system which takes advantage of the global quest for foreign...