Making Transformation Work for the Poor

 Given this background,the service is a desk research whose overall goal is to provide a structured descriptive analysis of recent changes of as many national labor markets as data availability will allow for. The service involves three assignments: i) carry out a detailed mapping of available national microdata sources with information on labor outcomes for at least two different points in time; ii) get access to available databases; and iii) analyze them. The approach will ensure the greatest extent of comparability of results and findings across countries. The focus of the analysis will be on quantifying and qualifying employment changes across time. Key dimensions of interest are job type (employees vs self-employment), working time, labor incomes, sector of activity (public versus private; agriculture, manufacture, construction and services; formal versus informal), and geographical areas (urban versus rural).

The main deliverable is a report that will profile the analyzed national labor markets, including a review of all identified surveys with details on data producers and providers, access procedures, data collection statistical methodology, and covered topics.