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Misinformed, mismatched, or misled?: Explaining the gap between expected and realized graduate earnings in MozambiqueInaccurate expectations of future wages are found in many contexts. Yet, existing studies overwhelmingly refer to high-income countries, and there is little evidence regarding the sources of expectational errors...
job mismatch Mozambique optimismBook Chapter
Does union membership pay off?: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEsFrom the book: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Labor unions Wages Small and medium enterprisesResearch Brief
The impact on jobs and earnings of offshoring in South AfricaThe success of an economy’s manufacturing sector is often critical to economic growth and development...
offshoring Firm-level data Linked employer-employee dataWorking Paper
Offshoring within South African manufacturing firms: An analysis of the labour market effectsIn South Africa, the manufacturing sector—important for growth and employment creation—has shown declining growth, poor productivity performance, decreased labour demand, and increased imports of intermediate goods (offshoring activities)...
offshoring Firm-level data Linked employer-employee data
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Why are workers getting a smaller share of the cake in Mexico?As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. In other words, wages have decreased compared with other sources of income such as capital income...
Income inequality Earnings inequality WagesWorking Paper
Wage growth and inequality in urban China: 1988–2013We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013...
Wages Income inequality Wage growthPolicy Brief
Employment expectations of university students in Mozambique: Results from a baseline surveyBefore now, there has been no systematic study of the transition of university students as they finish their studies and enter the labour market...
Employment Education WagesReport
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in MozambiqueThe survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique aims to respond to the concerns of the Government of Mozambique and development partners with respect to youth employment in the country...
Employment Education WagesResearch Brief
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The Happy Farmer: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being in Rural VietnamUsing a unique survey data set this paper documents a positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. This direct effect is only partly offset by negative, indirect effects working through income and other variables...
Agriculture Job satisfaction Quality of lifeWorking Paper
The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South AfricaIn this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the South African labour market between 2000 and 2014...
RIF Wages Income inequalityWorking Paper
Does union membership pay off?: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEsIn the absence of adequate institutional mechanisms, trade unions can potentially promote higher wages and other worker benefits, yet limited data availability means little is known about the effect unions have on individual earnings in developing ec...
Labor unions Wages Small and medium enterprisesJournal Article
On the Short- and Medium-Term Effects of Formalisation: Panel Evidence from VietnamThis paper analyses the consequences of formalisation on the performance of informal firms, using a panel dataset from Vietnam...
Factor proportions Informal sector (Economics) WagesWorking Paper
The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Vietmam’s micro, small, and medium enterprisesVery little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to mitigate the detrimental effects of minimum wage regulation...
Minimum wage Employment WagesJournal Article
Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in VietnamEmployment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising...
Economic development Economic growth Labor