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Job spells in an emerging marketFew studies exist on job duration in developing labour markets—an important omission both in our understanding of such markets and for the job duration literature, which is mainly based on developed-country case studies, which differ in structural...
Book Chapter
Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and NicaraguaPart of Book The Job Ladder
Book Chapter
Informal–formal transitions in work status in sub-Saharan AfricaPart of Book The Job Ladder
Journal Article
Job quality and labour market transitionsPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Book Chapter
Indonesia: employment and inequality trendsPart of Book Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
Journal Article
Informal work in sub-Saharan AfricaDespite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labor markets of many low- and middle-income countries. A key issue in this regard concerns the extent to which informality itself is a persistent...
Working Paper
Inequality and structural transformation in the changing nature of workThis paper analyses the labour market dynamics in Indonesia from 2001 to 2015 and explores the role of the changing nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find evidence of a...
Working Paper
Job quality and labour market transitionsIn this paper we analyse informal work in Mexico, which accounts for the majority of employment in the country and has grown over time. We document that the informal sector is composed of two distinct parts: salaried informal employment and self...
Working 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. We consider ‘advantageous’ states to be...
Working Paper
Informal work in sub-Saharan AfricaDespite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labour markets of many low- and middle-income countries. A key issue in this regard concerns the extent to which informality itself is a persistent...
Research Brief
Job duration in apartheid and post-apartheid South AfricaThe two primary features of a job are its wage and how long it lasts. Today, there is an extensive literature on wages in the developing world thanks to the expansion of national household survey data. However, far less work has been conducted on job...
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