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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdataThis study investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions...
Vulnerable employment Gender gap Developing countriesWorking Paper
Employer power and employment in developing countriesThe issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labour markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription...
Employer power Employment Developing countriesWorking Paper
Productivity growth effects of structural reforms: Evidence from developing countriesWhich structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by combining the local projections method and the inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (LP-IPWRA) method...
Labour productivity Reforms Business cyclesWorking Paper
Financial liberalization and its implications for private savings in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper employs data from 103 developing countries between 1981 and 2012 to examine the determinants of private savings in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with a focus on the effect of financial liberalization on private savings...
Developing countries Financial liberalization SavingBlog
Confronting low domestic savings in AfricaWhat are the linkages between national savings and sustainable economic growth? Why are there differences in the amounts of savings between different countries?...
Informal work Developing countries Domestic savingsWorking Paper
Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economiesThis paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid income and demand shocks. Fiscal policies within these countries are also stress tested to gauge welfare contingencies and insurance...
Developing countries Shocks Social protectionPresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Presentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar UniversitySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
Presentation
Carlos Gradín shares project findings at JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting at Columbia UniversityUNU-WIDER Research Fellow Carlos Gradín is invited to speak at the JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting convened by the Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University ( IPD )...
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Social mobility in the Global South – beyond poverty and inequality reductionA new book, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, produced by UNU-WIDER and edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen and published by Oxford University Press offers students, researchers, and...
Working Paper
Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions and skills formation in secondary schoolThis paper examines peer effects on students’ gender norm perceptions and skills formation...
Peer effect Gender norms Gender inequalityBlog
Why women are made to rely on vulnerable workThe gender pay-gap is one of the foremost indicators of gender inequality and thus a guide for women’s economic empowerment policies...
Gender Gender gap Developing countriesWorking Paper
Does the adoption of peer-to-government mobile payments improve tax revenue mobilization in developing countries?Developing countries need to raise sufficient tax revenue to finance development. Revenue mobilization is often hampered by limited tax compliance, weak institutions, and technical problems with tax collection...
Mobile money Tax revenue Propensity score matchingNews
Pathfinding new book on Social Mobility in Developing Countries out now
Economics social sciences Social mobility Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at the Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing CountriesThe 6th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries brings together leading economists working on public economics in developing countries on 13-15 December 2021. The online event provides an opportunity for researchers from...
Working Paper
Industrialization in developing countries: is it related to poverty reduction?This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth...
Poverty Production Growth