UNU WIDER : Kunal Sen on The Jobs Challenge in Asia and the Pacific

Kunal Sen on The Jobs Challenge in Asia and the Pacific

Wed, 4 September 2024

Kunal Sen joins the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) Economist Network webinar to present on the jobs challenge in Asia-Pacific. The webinar presents insights from the UNU-WIDER book Job Ladder.

The webinar tackles the following questions:

Why the jobs challenge is one of the most critical concerns right now across the diverse region
How the jobs landscape of the future is radically changing
What strategies countries can pursue to foster jobs-rich growth

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The Job Ladder

Using a range of countries from the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the dynamics of worker...