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7th IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development: Policy Forum
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POLICY FORUM: SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS: FACILITATING YOUTH TRANSITIONS INTO PRODUCTIVE WAGE OR SELF-EMPLOYMENT |
Joblessness, underemployment, informal, and temporary employment, and insecure working conditions among youth are some of the most challenging economic and social problems facing developing and transition countries. Governments across the globe are struggling to find policies to facilitate school-to-work transitions or transitions out of inactivity or unemployment into productive jobs. Among those young people who are currently employed, the challenge is often to increase the productivity and earnings of the jobs they hold. Labour market outcomes at early stages of one’s career are important determinants of long-term career prospects and success. The global financial crisis (which has affected youth more than other workers) as well as the recent social and political turmoil in the Arab world has made it even more imperative to address the issue of youth employment and the smooth and quick transition from school to the labor market.
This policy forum aims at contributing to the debate about the design and implementation of programs to support youth employment. It will bring together experts and practitioners in the field of youth employment from both developed and developing countries to share experiences and discuss what is known about the impact of alternative interventions. The forum will follow the two days IZA-World Bank annual conference, to be held November 5-6, and will include participants from donor countries, multilateral agencies, and developing country representatives.
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Program |
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Wednesday, November 07:
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09:00 |
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Registration |
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10:15 |
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Opening Session: Facilitating Youth Transition into Productive Wage or Self-Employment |
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Chair:
Isher Judge Ahluwalia (ICRIER)
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Keynote Address:
Subramaniam Ramadorai (Advisor to the Prime Minister in the National Council on Skill Development) |
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11:30 |
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Session A: Barriers to Wage Employment in India: The Role of Skills Mismatches |
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Chair:
John Blomquist (World Bank)
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Panelists
Ashol Sahu (Principal Advisor, Planing Commission)
Adel M. Fakeih (Minister of Labor, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Pawan Agarwal (Education Advisor, Planing Commission)
Bishwanath N. Goldar (Professor and Head, V.K.R.V. RAO Centre for Studies in Globalization, IEG)
Rajiv Kumar (Secretary General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) (tbc) |
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This session will feature an in-depth analysis of the role of skills mismatches for employment outcomes in India. If having inadequate skills or the wrong skills is a constraint to a successful school to work transition, this raises three questions: why do youth have the wrong skills, what are the right ones and how can governments ensure that they are made available? After providing an overview of the evidence about mismatches in terms of technical, cognitive, and non-cognitive skills in India, the discussion will focus on policy interventions that can be consider to address them. |
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12:45 |
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Session B: Barriers to Self-Employment in India: The Role of Schemes to Support Entrepreneurship |
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Chair:
David A. Robalino (World Bank)
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Panelists
Arun Kumar Jha (Director General, The National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBD))
Rehana Riyawala (Secretary, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA))
Dilip Chenoy (National Skill Development Coorperation (NSDC))
Arup Mitra (Professor, IEG) |
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Self-employment will continue to be an important source of jobs for youth in India. Today, only 55 percent of young people working are in wage and salary employment; the majority of the young non-wage workers are self-employed or work in small family/household enterprises, often in the farm sector. Unfortunately, the activities the self-employed are involved in, are often of very low productivity and generate little in terms of income. The session will discuss the types of interventions that can be considered to: (i) support current self-employed or small-scale entrepreneurs to improve the productivity of their activities (if economically viable) or move into different activities; and (ii) help new entrant to the labor market to transit into productive and remunerative self-employment. |
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13:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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14:00 |
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Closing Session: Addressing the Challenges of Youth Employment: Issues and Policy Implications |
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Chair:
Arup Banerji (World Bank)
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Panelists
Indian Policy Maker (tbc)
Stefano Scarpetta (Deputy Director, OECD and IZA)
Ravi Kanbur (T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International
Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Professor of
Economics Cornell University and IZA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (Director, IZA and University of Bonn) |
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Lunch |
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Shankar Acharya (ICRIER)
Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute and IZA)
Pawan Agarwal (Education Advisor, Planning Commission)
Aradhna Aggarwal (National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER))
Suresh Aggarwal (University of Delhi)
Isher Judge Ahluwalia (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER))
Pong-Sul Ahn (ILO International Labour Organization)
Alpaslan Akay (IZA)
Rita K. Almeida (World Bank and IZA)
Faisal Al-Sarraj (Ministry of Labor, Saudi Arabia)
Arup Banerji (World Bank and IZA)
Kaushik Basu (Cornell University and IZA)
Aditya Bhatacharjea (Delhi School of Economics)
Haroon Bhorat (University of Cape Town)
Duncan Campbell (ILO International Labour Organization and IZA)
Sandrine Cazes (ILO International Labour Organization and IZA)
Dilip Chenoy (National Skill Development Cooperation (NSDC))
Yoonyoung Cho (World Bank)
Martin Clemens (IZA)
Tomislav Delinic (Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany)
Adel M. Fakeih (Minister of Labor, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Francesca Francavilla (OECD)
Jason Gagnon (OECD and Paris School of Economics)
B.N. Goldar (Professor and Head, V.K.R.V. RAO Centre for Studies in Globalization, IEG)
Pablo Gottret (World Bank)
Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World Bank)
Rana Hasan (Asian Development Bank)
Stefan Helming (German International Cooperation (GIZ))
Mohammed Ikwan (Ministry of Labor, Saudi Arabia)
Narendra Jadhav (Planning Commission, Government of India)
Arun Kumar Jha (Director General, The National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD))
Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University and IZA)
Jochen Kluve (Humboldt University Berlin, RWI and IZA)
Julia Kubny (KfW Development Bank )
Rajiv Kumar (Secretary General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry)
David Lam (University of Michigan and IZA)
Kanika Mahajan (Indian Statistical Institute)
Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary, University of London and IZA)
Santosh Mehrotra (Institute of Applied Manpower Research)
Ulrich Meinecke (Councellor Social and Labour Affairs & Vocational Training German Embassy, New Delhi)
R.A. Mital (Secretary, HMS)
Arup Mitra (Institute of Economic Growth (IEG))
David Newhouse (World Bank and IZA)
Akshya Panda (Planning Commission, Government of India)
Albert Park (Hong Kong Polytechnic University and IZA)
Sharda Prasad (Ministry of Labour and Employment)
Subramaniam Ramadorai (Advisor to the Prime Minister in the National Council on Skill Development)
M. Govinda Rao (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy)
Kavita Rao (Delhi School of Economics)
Stephan Richter (The Globalist)
Jan Rielaender (OECD)
Rehana Riyawala (Secretary, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA))
David Robalino (World Bank and IZA)
Edgard Rodriguez (International Development Research Centre (IDRC))
Lucas Ronconi (Centro de Investigación y Acción Social (CIAS))
Friederike Rother (World Bank)
Preet Rustagi (Institute for Human Development)
Ashok Sahu (Planning Commission, Government of India)
Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta (World Bank and IZA)
Sunita Sanghi (Planning Commission, Government of India)
Stefano Scarpetta (OECD and IZA)
Rolf Schmachtenberg (German International Cooperation (GIZ))
Pia Schneider (World Bank)
Pronab Sen (Planning Commission, Government of India)
Shekhar Shah (National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER))
Alakh Sharma (Institute for Human Development)
P. K. Singh (United Service Institution of India)
Jaivir Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Maha Taibah (Ministry of Labor, Saudi Arabia)
Mervat Tashkandi (Ministry of Labor, Saudi Arabia)
Sher Verick (ILO International Labour Organization and IZA)
Christopher Woodruff (University of Warwick and IZA)
Ingrid Woolard (University of Cape Town)
Theodora Xenogiani (OECD and IZA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
Klaus Zumwinkel (IZA)
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