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...

Labour market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment contracts, and pension and other social protection policies, are instrumental for improving the well-being of workers and their families as well as societies. Yet in many countries, these institutions have...