Workforce Development in Emerging Economies: Comparative Perspectives on Institutions, Praxis, and Policies by Jee-Peng Tan; Kiong Hock Lee; Ryan Flynn; Viviana V. Roseth; Yoo-Jeung Joy Nam

Author:Jee-Peng Tan; Kiong Hock Lee; Ryan Flynn; Viviana V. Roseth; Yoo-Jeung Joy Nam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The World Bank

Scores of Countries with Multiyear Data

Data for multiple years were collected for Chile, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore. For Korea and Singapore the selected years—1970, 1990, and 2010—span a period of clear transition from emerging-economy status to high-income status. Workforce development had been an explicit and important component of Korea’s and Singapore’s economic strategy, and the selected years were chosen to track the evolution of institutional structure and praxis in the three functional dimensions addressed in the SABER-WfD framework. For Chile and Malaysia, two countries that also experienced economic development, the data cover only the last decade, the shorter period reflecting the paucity of documentary evidence and therefore the difficulty of assembling the desired information for earlier years. Finally, for Ireland, the data pertain to three years—1980, 1990, and 2000—covering a period of rapid economic transition during which WfD received significant attention as part of the government’s economic growth strategy. The collapse of the Irish economy in the 2007 global financial crisis and its aftermath add a layer of complexity that would have detracted from our study’s focus on the evolution of WfD institutions and praxis; to keep the analysis simple, particularly at this nascent stage of the SABER-WfD project, it was decided to collect data for Ireland only for the earlier years.

The time-series scores at the dimension level for the five countries appear in figure 4.3. By 2012 none of these countries had a low-performing WfD system, that is, a system with no dimension rated below the Established level.

Figure 4.3 Dimension-Level SABER-WfD Scores in Five Countries, 1970–circa 2010

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