Inclusive Growth - Labor Markets Gender and Technology
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- Session: OL 24.173
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: May 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024 (18 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Training program overview and logistics
- Session No.: OL 24.173
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: May 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024 (18 weeks)
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
- Target Audience:
- Mid-level to senior officials involved in economic and strategic planning; monitoring and evaluating policy strategies for reducing poverty and inequality; and promoting job creation.
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent experience.
Course description and themes
- The course examines inclusive growth from a labor market perspective.
- Key themes include:
- The role of an inclusive labor market in individual economic well-being and in helping the economy operate more efficiently.
- Determinants of labor market outcomes, including discrimination and how it could be addressed.
- How artificial intelligence and technological advancements affect labor market inclusivity and possible policy options to steer technological progress toward greater inclusivity.
- Gender discrimination, potential gains of gender inclusion, and policy measures to reduce multiple dimensions of the gender gap.
- Other topics:
- Consequences of informality and duality in the labor market.
- Interactions between individual attributes, the economic cycle, shocks, and technology in shaping labor market outcomes.
- Tradeoffs between equity and efficiency that policymakers need to weigh when enhancing inclusiveness.
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- 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 policy makers can do to enhance inclusiveness while weighing possible tradeoffs between equity and efficiency.