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Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countriesWe study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay...
child penalty event study female labour supplyProject workshop

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Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in West African SahelThis study uses detailed household-level data to analyse off-farm self-employment dynamics in Mali and Niger...
Fragile states Informality Self-employmentWorking Paper
Returns to education in self-employment in India: A comparison across different selection modelsThis study focuses on estimating the returns to education in non-farm self-employed businesses in the Indian context, using nationwide individual- and household-level data provided by the India Human Development Survey for the year 2011/12...
Double-selection model Endogeneity Returns to educationWorking Paper
Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and NicaraguaWe study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state...
Employment Women Latin AmericaProject

Theme: Transforming economies
Informality Self-employment PovertyWorking Paper
Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in GhanaWe examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment...
Gender Ghana Graduate employabilityProject
Promoting entrepreneurial capacityTheme: 2008-09
Entrepreneurship can play an important role in structural economic change and in improving wellbeing. Governments and international institutions are investing increasing resources to promote entrepreneurship. This project aims at a greater...
Development and Finance Entrepreneurship Economic development