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Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies

Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

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Authors:
  1. Jacqueline Mazza

    1. Johns Hopkins University, Potomac, USA

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  • Shares the results of twenty five years of practical experience in job-poor countries
  • Lays out in phases how developing countries can adapt existing services
  • Explores how countries are already improving

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Jobs and Job Search in Developing Countries: Nice Work if You Can Get it!

    • Jacqueline Mazza
    Pages 1-18

  3. Employment and Labor Intermediation Services: What Are They and What Are They Good For?

    • Jacqueline Mazza
    Pages 19-38

  4. Stage 1: Building Core Employment Services

    • Jacqueline Mazza
    Pages 39-64

  5. Stage 2: From Employment to Labor Intermediation Services

    • Jacqueline Mazza
    Pages 65-112

  6. A Stage 3? Labor Intermediation and the New Jobs Agenda for Development

    • Jacqueline Mazza
    Pages 113-136

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 137-152
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About this book

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 - more often go to the privileged and well-connected than to those who need them most. With jobs now at the top of development debates, this is a rare book on how to practically adapt one key labor market policy to very different developing and emerging country markets. It shows through examples how developing countries can build in stages from basic employment services to diverse labor intermediation services – opening up job listings, stimulating public-private partnerships, and making job connections for those who don’t have a "cousin Vinny who knows a guy". This book is for policy practitioners, development organizations, and academics who are ready to think differently about one of the policies that needs to change so that developing economies can better meet the employment and higher skill challenges of the global age.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Johns Hopkins University, Potomac, USA

    Jacqueline Mazza

About the author

Jacqueline Mazza is currently Senior Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, teaching in Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy. She is a recognized expert in the field of labor markets and development, with over 25 years of experience. She served most recently as Principal Labor Markets Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies

  • Book Subtitle: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age

  • Authors: Jacqueline Mazza

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48668-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48667-7Published: 16 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69540-9Published: 31 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48668-4Published: 16 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 152

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, International Economics, Economic Growth

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