What is ‘a job’? How to measure job creation on jobtech platforms in Africa

Authored by: Carmen Merab
October 4, 2023
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At the Jobtech Alliance, we’re pretty strict about what we consider to be a job created or improved. Based on our experience in the space, and engagement with hundreds of platforms, we’ve developed a model that we’re currently using to count ‘what is a job’. And context is indeed everything.

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