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Understanding the Job Needs of Extractives
At a Glance
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Nascent markets often require targeted efforts to boost the skills of the local labor force.
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To create and enhance local capabilities that can be transferred to other sectors, it is important to develop skills that are common across several; one way to accomplish this is to create and support the development of multi-industry clusters.
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Development of cross-sectoral skills is important because the mining, oil and gas sectors are highly sensitive to business cycle variations that often lead to employment contraction.
Case Studies
- Studies on Employment and Extractive Industry-dominated African Countries (Chijioke J. Evoh)
- The Oil and Gas Industry in Uganda: Employment Trends, Vocational Education and Training, and Skills Needed (Jimmy Twebaze)
Key Resources
- Employment from Mining and Agricultural Investments: How Much Myth, How Much Reality? (Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Olle Ostensson, Perrine Toledano)
- Matching Skills and Labour Market Needs, Building Social Partnerships for Better Skills and Better Jobs (World Economic Forum)
- Oil and Gas Extraction: North American Industry Classification System 211 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Role of Mining in National Economies (International Council on Mining and Metals)
- Mining a Mirage. Reassessing the Shared-Value Paradigm in Light of the Technological Advances in the Mining Sector (Martin Dietrich Brauch, Aaron Cosbey, Jeff Geipel, Nicolas Maennling, Howard Mann, Perrine Toledano)
- Local Content Policies: Stimulating Direct Local Employment (Tim Grice)
Topic Briefing
Planning and executing an extractive project require a broad set of skills, ranging from basic to highly specialized labor. In less developed labor markets, local employment often focuses on basic and low-skilled labor. Consequently, targeted training efforts are often needed to meet extractive projects’ demand.