Work is constantly reshaped by technological progress. New ways of production are adopted, markets expand, and societies evolve. But some changes provoke more attention than others, in part due to the vast uncertainty involved in making predictions about the future. The 2019 World Development Report looks at how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Overview
• Changes in the nature of work
• What can governments do?
• Organization of this study
• 1. The changing nature of work
• Technology generates jobs
• How work is changing
• A simple model of changing work
• 2. The changing nature of firms
• Superstar firms
• Competitive markets
• Tax avoidance
• 3. Building human capital
• Why governments should get involved
• Why measurement helps
• The human capital project
• 4. Lifelong learning
• Learning in early childhood
• Tertiary education
• Adult learning outside the workplace
• 5. Returns to work
• Informality
• Working women
• Working in agriculture
• 6. Strengthening social protection
• Social assistance
• Social insurance
• Labor regulation
• 7. Ideas for social inclusion
• A global “New Deal”
• Creating a new social contract
• Financing social inclusion