Improving Labor Market Outcomes for Poor and Vulnerable Groups in Mongolia
Mongolia has experienced strong economic growth and declining poverty in the past. With the implementation of the law on employment promotion in 2011, the Government of Mongolia provided the legal base for a set of employment promotion programs. By...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25761589/improving-labor-market-outcomes-poor-vulnerable-groups-mongolia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23671 |
| Summary: | Mongolia has experienced strong economic
growth and declining poverty in the past. With the
implementation of the law on employment promotion in 2011,
the Government of Mongolia provided the legal base for a set
of employment promotion programs. By means of these
programs, different vulnerable labor market groups are
addressed, ranging from graduates to disabled, older
workers, herders, and unskilled job seekers. The objective
of the report is to describe and analyze labor market
outcomes for different groups of the population in Mongolia,
with a particular focus on poor and vulnerable households,
and present a set of policy interventions to strengthen the
labor market participation and integration of currently
unemployed or inactive adults. The focus of the report is on
supply side issues of the labor market. In order to better
understand the mechanisms driving labor market outcomes, a
prospective qualitative analysis is already planned to
complement the present quantitative analysis. The report is
structured as follows: section one gives introduction.
Section two provides the country context in terms of
economic and demographic developments and the
characteristics of the Mongolian labor market. The empirical
analysis is presented in section three. In section four the
existing labor market policies in Mongolia are mapped and
their challenges discussed. Finally, section five concludes
and recommends a set of policy measures to further improve
the labor market outcomes of poor and vulnerable groups. |
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