The World Bank report “Tunisia’s Jobs Landscape” describes trends in growth, productivity, demography, employment, and living standards to inform the analysis of labour supply and labour demand carried out.
It 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 labour productivity growth.
Then, the report provides an overview of the composition of the labour market and how it has changed over time, including demographics and labour force participation, employment, and employment composition in terms of the type of job, industrial sector, and 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 difficulties in accessing the labour market, namely women and youth, and advances hypotheses regarding key barriers to their engagement in the labour market.
The WB report shifts the focus to one of the most relevant dimensions that characterize the Tunisian labour market, namely the distinction between the public sector, and formal and informal employment. The report 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 to wage workers with different characteristics, in particular different educational endowments, benefit from the labour market.
Finally, the WB report examines recent trends in the patterns of structural and spatial transformation along the employment and firm dimension. It provides an overview of the firm landscape in terms of size, industrial sector, and geographical area as well as recent trends in firms’ performance, dynamics, labour decisions and capital investments, as well as constraints and opportunities firms, face.
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