Publication: Tunisia’s Jobs Landscape
Date
2022
ISSN
Published
2022
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The report is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1
describes trends in growth, productivity, demography,
employment, and living standards to inform the analysis
of labor supply and labor demand carried out in the chapters that follow. The chapter starts by depicting aggregate
trends in economic growth and living standards of the
Tunisian population, the drivers of growth (e.g. remittances and migration, FDI, exchange rate, productivity,
etc.), and broad structural changes in terms of job creation
and labor productivity growth. Chapter 2 provides an
overview of the composition of the labor market and how
it has changed over time, including demographics and labor
force participation, employment and employment composition in terms of type of job, industrial sector, occupation
both at the aggregate level and for different population
groups based on gender, age, educational level, and geographical location. It turns the spotlight on two groups
that face particular difficulties in accessing the labor market, namely women and youth, and advances hypotheses
regarding key barriers to their engagement in the labor
market. Chapter 3 shifts the focus to one of the most relevant dimensions that characterize the Tunisian labor market,
namely the distinction between the public sector, formal and
informal employment. The chapter investigates how individual characteristics are correlated with the probability
of working in different types of employment; it provides
an overview of recent trends in wages and of conditional
wage gaps along a number of dimensions (men/women,
public/private, formal/informal employment); and it illustrates how wage workers with different characteristics,
in particular different educational endowments, benefit
from the labor market. Finally, building on the findings of Chapter 1, Chapter 4 examines recent trends in the patterns of structural and spatial transformation along the
employment and fi rm dimension. It provides an overview
of the firm landscape in terms of size, industrial sector,
geographical area as well as recent trends in fi rms’ performance, dynamics, labor decisions and capital investments,
as well as constraints and opportunities firms face.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2022. Tunisia’s Jobs Landscape. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38381 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”