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Building from Core to Labor Intermediation Services in Stages

Strengthening the link between labor and social policy programs and labor intermediation systems is just one of a number of areas where labor intermediation services are taking on a different character from labor intermediation systems which evolved in the developed economies over decades, and now centuries, with far greater resources.

This book now takes you through rethinking labor intermediation for developing economies in a global age in stages: Stage 1, building core services (Chap. 2); Stage 2, expanding coverage, services and innovation (Chap. 3); Stage 3, linking to social, economic and workforce policies (although still in evolution). These stages are based on “hands-on” experience with basic employment services in developing countries, watching some evolve through Stage 2 and some in the starting gates for Stage 3. Each of these Stages, from 1 to 3, represents a progression and advance of intermediation as an active labor market policy. Each stage has distinct design, operational and performance features as well as very different national, regional and sub-regional variations.

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Building to a Labor Intermediation Service: Creating and Linking New Services
Core employment services, while important to do efficiently to establish a service, will soon face limitations in developing country markets, both in relation to dysfunctions present in the local labor market and in getting new job listings where formal sectors are small. Perhaps it will seem that there...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
Employment and Labor Intermediation Services: What Are They and What Are They Good For?
Employment services are designed to match job seekers - whether unemployed or in a job - with available jobs. If done well, they fulfill three key labor market objectives: (1) reducing the time it takes to find a job (good for both the worker and the employer); (2) increasing the percentage of workers...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
Extended Services: Growing into Labor Intermediation Services
Why do most employment services - public, private or non-profit - move quickly into, or even start out with, more than just the core functions? The simplest explanation is that job placement rarely works as simply as a Match.com single moment - job seeker A with good CV and advice matched with perfect...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
Stage 2: From Employment to Labor Intermediation Services
The traditional employment services model that grew up in the advanced economies in the 1940s-60s had it much easier compared to today’s developing and emerging economies. They only had to work marginally well because so many employment-school-work connections happened outside the employment services...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
Integrating and Rethinking Labor Intermediation Services: Left, Right and Center
Today with global markets, rapidly changing competition, and more frequent job change in diverse national contexts, it’s time to throw away any remaining one-size-fits-all policy rule books. This book started as a practical, hands-on approach to a changing one active labor market policy, and it will...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
Cultivating Core Business, Launching Differentiated Services and Specialty Services
From a global viewpoint, well-known large securities companies around the world all have their own special operational characteristics in business development. In a way, this crystallizes the core competitive strength of these securities companies. Chinese securities companies should cultivate their...
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Varied Models of National Intermediation Services in Even More Varied National Intermediation Markets
By the later stages of Stage 2, developing country labor intermediation services, now national, are very different from the classic national public employment service of old. It is important, though, that Stage 2 is not seen just as the strengthening of a national, formerly all-public, labor intermediation...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
A Stage 3? Labor Intermediation and the New Jobs Agenda for Development
Finally it has become fashionable to talk about jobs as central to development! Good, stable jobs are fundamental to getting the poor permanently out of poverty and poor countries permanently on the road to middle-income status. It is also no secret that to get anyone, and the poor in particular, a good...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)
Intermediation Services
The traditional roles of employment services - helping make a better match faster of worker to job - are still amply relevant to contribute to greater productivity and economic performance in today’s developing economies. Clearly changing, as reviewed extensively in this book, is both how this is being...
(Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age)