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The evolution of vulnerable employment in Egypt, Jordan, and TunisiaFrom the book: The Job Ladder
Vulnerable employment Informality Youth unemploymentBook Chapter
Informal–formal workers’ transition in Nigeria: A livelihood analysisFrom the book: The Job Ladder
Regression analysis Employment Formal and informalJournal Article
Educational expansion and shifting private returns to education: Evidence from MozambiqueTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We examine how returns to education have evolved in the context of post-conflict reconstruction and economic growth in Mozambique over the period 1996–2015...
Returns to education Workforce EmploymentBook Chapter
Indonesia: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Labour market dynamics Inequality OccupationsBook Chapter
Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and NicaraguaFrom the book: The Job Ladder
Employment Women Latin AmericaBook Chapter
Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and NicaraguaFrom the book: The Job Ladder
Employment Informal work Worker mobilityWorking Paper
Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Ecuadorian administrative dataThis paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population...
Top incomes Employment Earnings inequalityWorking Paper
Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles...
Gender gap Employment DecompositionWorking Paper
A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa: Individual impacts of the Employment Tax IncentiveThis paper uses survey and tax administrative data to analyse the effects of a sizeable employer-borne payroll tax credit for young, low-wage workers in South Africa...
Employment Youth Wage subsidyWorking 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
Physical proximity and occupational employment change by gender during the COVID-19 pandemicPrevious economic downturns such as the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis disproportionately affected male employment due to greater contractions in industries typically filled by men (e.g., manufacturing)...
COVID-19 Gender EmploymentTechnical Note
Discrete choice modelling of labour supply and informal employment using ECUAMODThis technical note presents one of the modelling approaches used in Jara and Rattenhuber (2022) to estimate formal employment elasticities, namely the estimation of a discrete choice model of labour supply with informal employment...
Labour supply Informal EmploymentPresentation
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 )...
Book Chapter
Leapfrogging into the unknown: The future of structural change in the developing worldFrom the book: The developer’s dilemma
Technological change Structural change EmploymentBlog
The COVID-19 crisis, informal workers, and gender — understanding the intersections
The COVID-19 crisis — the pandemic, restrictions, and recession — has not been a grand leveler...
Equality and inequality COVID-19 GenderJournal Article
Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle income countriesGender gaps in labor force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs...
Gender gap Youth Employment