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    Perspective
    Welfare and Rights 8 March 2016

    Will India’s New Maternity Leave Law Arrest the Decline in Women’s Workforce Participation?

    The Government of India recently amended the Maternity Benefit Act to increase maternity leave from the current 12 weeks to 26 weeks for women working in the private sector. Will this new measure help to arrest the declining rates of women in the workforce?

    by Dhruv Jain
    Perspective
    Others 3 March 2016

    What Does India’s 2016 Budget Mean for Jobs?

    As the Indian government released its 2016 budget earlier this week, a key question is whether it does enough to address one of the biggest challenges confronting the Indian economy: job creation. Here are some reactions from the JustJobs Network team on India's 2016 budget.

    Report
    Trade and Supply Chains 3 February 2016

    U.S Congress Seeks JJN Input on Trans-Pacific Partnership

    U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Democrats called on JustJobs Network Executive Director Sabina Dewan this month to submit her statement on the labor provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

    by Sabina Dewan
    Perspective
    Technology 15 January 2016

    How Automation Can Spur Job Creation in the Long Run

    A new working paper by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrates that – while increased automation may cause job losses in the short run – advances in technology will lead to job-creation in the long-run.

    by Amanbir Singh
    Report
    Trade and Supply Chains 10 December 2015

    Creating More and Better Jobs Through Asean: Strategies for Indonesia to Leverage Regional Integration

    Leaders of ASEAN must aspire to not only achieve higher GDP growth rates but also to create more and better jobs for its burgeoning youth population.

    by Perkumpulan Prakarsa
    Perspective
    Technology 4 December 2015

    Mobile and On-Demand: The Future of Social Benefits in France

    The French social welfare system is up for reform through the newly proposed Individual Activity Accounts, which aim to make social benefits universal, mobile and on-demand. If the reforms are implemented as proposed, social benefits will be used more efficiently and distributed more equitably.

    by Tanvir Malik
    Perspective
    Labour Markets and Measurement 18 November 2015

    How to Extract Online Data for Research

    While a fair bit of data is actually available online, it's not in a machine readable format. The data is either in a .pdf file or inside tables on multiple web pages. Data available in these formats is difficult to analyze as it usually cannot be read by any statistical software.

    by Amanbir Singh
    Perspective
    Gender 4 November 2015

    Is “Abenomics” Helping to Increase Female Labor Participation in Japan?

    As the employment and activity rates for men are already quite high in Japan, there is limited scope to further increase the number of men participating in the economy. So in order to significantly increase the total size of Japan's workforce, there must be an increase in women's participation in the labor force.

    by Amanbir Singh
    Perspective
    Urbanization 31 October 2015

    Re-examining the Link Between Urbanization, Jobs and Economic Growth

    The relationship between urbanization and economic growth may actually be tenuous, and the relationship with formal economy job creation even more so. This is particularly true of newly urban and rapidly urbanizing regions of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

    by Gregory Randolph
    Perspective
    Education and Skills 7 October 2015

    ‘Skill India’ Won’t Succeed Without Inclusive Cities

    With most of India's job-hungry youth residing in rural areas, and most of its job creation happening in cities, the country must design its cities to cope with "and welcome" internal migrants.

    by Gregory Randolph