World Bank2024-04-032024-04-032024-04-03https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41361The report is structured as follows. Chapter 1 discusses the labor market constraints facing different segments of the working-age population, which can inform how to make work attractive.Chapter 2 explores the factors that are discouraging older people from re-entering the labor market and the need to optimize pension design to promote healthier and longer working lives. Chapter 3 explores ways to enhance human capital formation through the lifecycle, starting with early childcare and education, followed by upper secondary school, secondary VET, tertiary education, TVET and adult training. Chapter 4 identifies the enabling conditions needed to ensure that net migration can have a positive impact on the growth of economic participation and productivity. Chapter 5 focuses on ways to leverage public-private partnerships to providetraining and activation services and on how ALMPs could best be used to increase labor market participation. Finally, Chapter 6 explores the role that social protection can play in stimulating participation in the labor marketen-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOSOCIAL SAFETY NETSLABOR MARKET POLICY AND PROGRAMSJOB SKILLSQUALITY EDUCATIONSDG 4ReportWorld Bank10.1596/41361