Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All

The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) places great emphasis on the creation of a sufficient number of high-quality jobs to achieve full employment. This report aims to provide robust evidence to inform the RGoB’s policy-making with regard to critic...

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Main Authors:	World Bank Group, Ministry of Labor and Human Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2016
Subjects:	labor market employment labor policies social protection private sector employment enterprise survey
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/557661481527721306/Bhutan-s-labor-market-toward-gainful-quality-employment-for-all http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25703

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spelling	okr-10986-257032021-05-25T08:55:55Z Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All World Bank Group Ministry of Labor and Human Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan labor market employment labor policies social protection private sector employment enterprise survey The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) places great emphasis on the creation of a sufficient number of high-quality jobs to achieve full employment. This report aims to provide robust evidence to inform the RGoB’s policy-making with regard to critical labor market challenges, underlying causes and potential solutions. Building on a conceptual framework introduced in the World Bank’s World Development Report 2013: Jobs, the analysis takes into account policy fundamentals that are essential for both growth and job creation, labor market policies that can help ensure that growth translates into employment opportunities and a list of policy priority areas where jobs might do the most for development given Bhutan’s specific country context. The report relies primarily on two data sources that provide recent robust and complementary information on labor supply and demand in Bhutan: First, the Bhutan Labor Force Survey (BLFS) 2014, a representative labor force survey with a newly expanded questionnaire that was implemented by the MoLHR with support from the World Bank. Second, the Bhutan Enterprise Survey (BES) 2015, a survey of firms conducted by the World Bank that improved the understanding of the conditions, experiences and perspectives of Bhutan’s nonfarm private firms. The report also uses evidence from previous studies, legal documents, and discussions with experts and stakeholders from Bhutan and beyond. 2016-12-12T17:10:25Z 2016-12-12T17:10:25Z 2016 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/557661481527721306/Bhutan-s-labor-market-toward-gainful-quality-employment-for-all http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25703 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Economic & Sector Work :: Other Social Protection Study Economic & Sector Work South Asia Bhutan
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description	The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) places great emphasis on the creation of a sufficient number of high-quality jobs to achieve full employment. This report aims to provide robust evidence to inform the RGoB’s policy-making with regard to critical labor market challenges, underlying causes and potential solutions. Building on a conceptual framework introduced in the World Bank’s World Development Report 2013: Jobs, the analysis takes into account policy fundamentals that are essential for both growth and job creation, labor market policies that can help ensure that growth translates into employment opportunities and a list of policy priority areas where jobs might do the most for development given Bhutan’s specific country context. The report relies primarily on two data sources that provide recent robust and complementary information on labor supply and demand in Bhutan: First, the Bhutan Labor Force Survey (BLFS) 2014, a representative labor force survey with a newly expanded questionnaire that was implemented by the MoLHR with support from the World Bank. Second, the Bhutan Enterprise Survey (BES) 2015, a survey of firms conducted by the World Bank that improved the understanding of the conditions, experiences and perspectives of Bhutan’s nonfarm private firms. The report also uses evidence from previous studies, legal documents, and discussions with experts and stakeholders from Bhutan and beyond.
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title	Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All
title_short	Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All
title_full	Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All
title_fullStr	Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All
title_full_unstemmed	Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All
title_sort	bhutan’s labor market : toward gainful quality employment for all
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/557661481527721306/Bhutan-s-labor-market-toward-gainful-quality-employment-for-all http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25703
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