Publication: Bhutan’s Labor Market: Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All
Date
2016
ISSN
Published
2016
Author(s)
World Bank Group
Ministry of Labor and Human Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan
Abstract
The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB)
places great emphasis on the creation of a sufficient number
of high-quality jobs to achieve full employment. This report
aims to provide robust evidence to inform the RGoB’s
policy-making with regard to critical labor market
challenges, underlying causes and potential solutions.
Building on a conceptual framework introduced in the World
Bank’s World Development Report 2013: Jobs, the analysis
takes into account policy fundamentals that are essential
for both growth and job creation, labor market policies that
can help ensure that growth translates into employment
opportunities and a list of policy priority areas where jobs
might do the most for development given Bhutan’s specific
country context. The report relies primarily on two data
sources that provide recent robust and complementary
information on labor supply and demand in Bhutan: First, the
Bhutan Labor Force Survey (BLFS) 2014, a representative
labor force survey with a newly expanded questionnaire that
was implemented by the MoLHR with support from the World
Bank. Second, the Bhutan Enterprise Survey (BES) 2015, a
survey of firms conducted by the World Bank that improved
the understanding of the conditions, experiences and
perspectives of Bhutan’s nonfarm private firms. The report
also uses evidence from previous studies, legal documents,
and discussions with experts and stakeholders from Bhutan
and beyond.
Citation
“World Bank Group; Ministry of Labor and Human Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan. 2016. Bhutan’s Labor Market; Bhutan’s Labor Market : Toward Gainful Quality Employment for All. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25703 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”