Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age - Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies: Adapting Employment Services for a Global Age -

Jobs and Job Search in Developing Countries: Nice Work if You Can Get it!Searching for Jobs in Developing Countries Limited to Non-existent Open Job Listings “Friends and Family”: The Dominant Job Search Method in Developing Countries: ... Works Well Only with the Right Friends and Family Job Seekers in Developing Countries: The Hidden, the Discouraged, and the Mobile The Un, Under and Poorly Employed The Discouraged, the Idle: Neither Working, Studying, Training Nor Searching for Work The Mobile: Economic Migrants The Bigger Job Context: The Low Job Quality, Skills Mismatch, Low Productivity, Low Job Creation Vortex Supply Mismatches: Worker Skills/Qualifications versus What Employers Need Demand Constraints: Lousy Work ... If You Can Get It Rethinking Job Search Intermediation with a Jobs Problem Notes Employment and Labor Intermediation Services: What Are They and What Are They Good For?Employment Services: Their Record, and Their Economic and Social Rationales Employment Services: The Core Services Who Provides These Services?Extended Services: Growing into Labor Intermediation Services “Intermediation Plus” Extended Services Information and Program Administration Services What They Can and Cannot Do: An Active Labor Market and Social Policy Reality Check Building from Core to Labor Intermediation Services in Stages Notes Stage 1: Building Core Employment Services Delivering Core Services in a Global Age Beginning with a Private Sector Strategy #1 Strategy: Institutional #2 Sector-Based Strategies #3 Starting Specialized with Target Populations: Youth Operations/Mechanics for Stage One Initial Operational/Locational Set-Up Building Competent Human Resources and a Depoliticized Foundation Legal/Regulatory Obstacles Performance and Monitoring Indicators Drawing on International Technical Support Training Programs Building to Stage 1 The Tech Revolution: What Stage 1 Role?Mobile Units/Rural Adaptations Start in Employment Crisis Mode Moving Onto Stage 2 Notes Stage 2: From Employment to Labor Intermediation Services Starting in or Growing into Stage 2 Building to a Labor Intermediation Service: Creating and Linking New Services Type 1: Information Services Labor Market Information Observatories and Employment Portals (Type 1)Training, Microenterprise and Higher Education Information Systems (Type 1)Type 2: Services and Programs to Support Employment Training and Other Active Labor Market Programs (Type 2)Programs for Disadvantaged Groups: Special Considerations (Type 2)Migration Support Programs (Type 2)Microenterprise/Entrepreneurship (Type 2)Placement/Human Resources Services for Employers (Type 2)Type 3: Program Administration and Support Services Referral Labor Market Program Administration/Unemployment Support (Type 3)Social Service Gateway and Referral (Type 3)Building a Better Service: Advancing Coverage and Efficiency Through Management Restructuring, Case Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Management Platform for Expansion and Better Performance Case Management and Professionalization of Job Counselors Single Window and Co-location Improving Monitoring and Evaluation Towards a National Intermediation “System”: Creating Jobs Inc.Varied Models of National Intermediation Services in Even More Varied National Intermediation Markets Advancing Self-Service: Market-Driven Intermediation via Technology Advancing Accountable Schools and Training Institutions Human Resources Development as a Career: Fostering Networks, Societies, Education Focusing on Growing Sectors/Jobs Strategies.... Towards Stage 3?Notes A Stage 3? Labor Intermediation and the New Jobs Agenda for Development Diverse Jobs Challenges Mean Diverse Jobs Strategies Intermediation Services Integrating and Rethinking Labor Intermediation Services: Left, Right and Center Integration from the Center (Workforce Development/Education/ Training/Skills)Integration from Left (Social Services/Labor)Integration from the Right (Economic Development/Strategic Sectors)More Job Change, More Often with More Skill Content: The Future of Labor Intermediation More Rapid Job Change with More Transitions/Greater Range of Clients Labor Mobility and Migration Advancing Skill Content of All Work Intermediation on a More Dynamic, Global Stage Notes Bibliography