I guess that's one template for booming with jobs.

You can also be a wealthly petrostate (with or without corruption), or a corrupt, dirt-poor state with no labor laws and be booming with outsourced low-wage textile jobs, or a command-economy with plenty of pointless make-work jobs...

If your goal is just to have a lot of jobs to keep your young people busy so they don't foment a revolution, there's plenty of ways to go.