Inclusive Growth - Labor Markets Gender and Technology

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• Published: August 1, 2025

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Overview

• The course examines inclusive growth from a labor market perspective.
• The course explains that an inclusive labor market is important for an individual's economic well-being and helps the economy operate more efficiently.
• It discusses determinants of labor market outcomes, including discrimination and approaches to address it.
• The course explores how artificial intelligence and technological advancements affect labor market inclusivity and introduces policy options to steer technological progress toward fostering inclusive growth.
• It addresses gender discrimination, potential gains from gender inclusion, and policies to help close gender gaps.
• Topic: Structural Policies

Target audience and qualifications

• Target audience: Mid-level to senior officials involved in economic and strategic planning, including the monitoring and evaluating of policies aimed at reducing poverty and inequality, addressing the distributional impacts of technological change and promoting job creation.
• Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience.

Course objectives

• Describe what it means for a labor market to be inclusive.
• Interpret indicators of labor market inclusiveness.
• Examine determinants of labor market outcomes, including an individual's attributes, the economic cycle, shocks, and technology.
• Investigate the consequences of informality and duality in the labor market.
• Analyze gender inequality and its negative economic implications.
• Discuss what policymakers can do to enhance inclusiveness while weighing possible tradeoffs between equity and efficiency.

Major themes and substantive findings

• Determinants of labor market outcomes:
  • Individual attributes.
  • Economic cycle and shocks.
  • Technological change, including artificial intelligence.
  • Discrimination as an important determinant and barrier to inclusion.
• Labor market structure:
  • Consequences of informality and duality for inclusiveness and economic performance.
• Technology and inclusivity:
  • Technological advancements can both challenge and create opportunities for inclusive labor markets; policy choices affect the distributional outcomes.
• Gender inclusion:
  • Gender discrimination reduces economic outcomes; inclusion can yield potential gains.

Policy options and tradeoffs

• Policy options to address discrimination and improve inclusiveness, including gender-focused policies.
• Options to steer technological progress so it fosters inclusive growth.
• Emphasis on weighing tradeoffs between equity and efficiency when designing policy interventions.

References

• Online Training
• OL 26.164
• Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)
• Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)
• Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
• Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)
• Apply online