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• briq - Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness
  

  The data were collected in a behavioral choice experiment with a total of N = 591 student participants at the BonnEconLab of the University of Bonn, Germany, in September 2016. In the main sample...

• G2LM|LIC - Assessing the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19 on Women With Young Children in Egypt
  

  To better understand the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on female labor force participation in Egypt, the study collects data with a particular focus on the intersection of COVID-19, child ...

• G2LM|LIC - Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities
  

  Context In the original research project, two interventions that are designed to help young urban dwellers search for employment by removing spatial and informational obstacles to job search were ...

• G2LM|LIC - Asymmetric Information on the Skills of Workers and Matching in the Labor Market
  

  The project studies how employers and job seekers respond to credible information on skills that are difficult to observe, and how this affects matching in the labor market. Whether certificates on...

• G2LM|LIC - Characterizing Urban Labor Market Effects of COVID and Speeding Recovery Through a Job Search Platform
  

  The data collection from jobseekers and firms is done as part of the enrollment and operations for the job search platform called “Job Talash”. As part of the operations for the platform, vacancies...

• G2LM|LIC - COVID-19 Returned Indian Migrant Panel
  

  Research Background: On March 24, 2020, the Indian Government announced a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, effective with a few hours of notice. For an estimated 40 million mig...

• G2LM|LIC - EMES: Ethiopian Manufactoring Enterprise Survey
  

  The data were collected during April and May 2016 on a sample of 300 Ethiopian manufacturing firms and 3.000 workers. As sampling frame the 2015 Census of Manufacturing Firms was used conducted by ...

• G2LM|LIC - How Labor Market Tightness and Job Search Activity Changed in the First Year of COVID-19 in India: Evidence from a Job Portal |  Leveraging “Big Data” to Improve Labor Market Outcomes
  

  In this project, rich administrative data on search and recruitment from a low-wage online job portal are used to study the labor market impacts of COVID-19 in India. The data from the job portal i...

• G2LM|LIC - Impacts of Local Labor Market Information on Search and Employment: Evidence from India
  

  This study sought to understand the impacts of providing customized and timely labor market information on the search and employment decisions of job seekers. The sample of job seekers was recruite...

• G2LM|LIC - Meet Your Future Project: COVID-19 Phone Surveys - Students and Alumnis
  

  The Meet Your Future Project (MYF) is an RCT designed in partnership with BRAC Uganda to investigate the relative importance of several barriers to quality employment that students face when transi...

• G2LM|LIC - Nairobi Women’s Labor Market Panel Data
  

  Introduction: The project conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions between 2013 and 2017 targeted to 905 young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi’s poorest neighborh...

• G2LM|LIC - Occupational Health and Safety: The Role of Information and Financial Linkage
  

  The intervention was carried out in October 2017. A baseline survey was conducted prior to the intervention in 2017 and two follow-up surveys were carried out in December 2018 and end of 2019. In a...

• G2LM|LIC - Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity
  

  The authors investigate in a sample of over 3,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items for alternative items of similar value....

• G2LM|LIC - REP: Reducing Extreme Poverty through Skill Training for Industry Job Placement
  

  The experimental intervention of this study was inspired by the Department for International Development (DFID)-funded training program conducted in the Northern Bangladesh by Gana Unnayan Kendra (...

• G2LM|LIC - Taming Counterfeits Markets with Consumer Information
  

  The project aimed to study whether an information campaign to improve Kenyan farmers’ ability to detect quality of agricultural inputs—such as seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides was able to help: ...

• G2LM|LIC - The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh
  

  This study developed and implemented a mobile-phone-based survey of garment workers in Bangladesh, providing insights about COVID-19 responses in their workplace and the effects on workers. The...

• G2LM|LIC - Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers during and Post-Curfew in Nairobi, Kenya
  

  The broad objective of this project was to provide information that could be used to target aid and welfare or employment support to those who are stuck in an unemployment or underemployment trap d...

• G2LM|LIC - UYOP: Uganda Youth Opportunity Program - COVID-19 Survey
  

  This study does examine the resilience of young micro-entrepreneurs in the informal sector and their families in rural Uganda against the COVID-19 shock. More specifically, the study investigates h...

• G2LM|LIC - Women’s Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
  

  Data is based on a phone survey of 1,545 rural Indian households collected in August 2020 in 20 districts across 6 states (Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtr...

• G2LM|LIC – Impacts of Labeling Remittances on Migrants and their Households in the Philippines
  

  The study seeks to support the Philippine COVID-19 response by quantifying the role of international migrant remittances in helping households cope with the pandemic’s economic consequences. The ...

• G2LM|LIC – Jobs of the World Database
  

  The Jobs of the World Database (JWD) is a publicly available database constructed by harmonizing the available micro-datasets which contain information on jobs and labor market activities in low- a...

• IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey
  

  The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey (IZA ED) was developed in order to obtain reliable longitudinal estimates for the impact of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP). Moreover, it is suitable for study...

• IZA Expert Opinion Survey
  

  The IZA Expert Opinion Survey on the Single European Labor Market was conducted in February 2014. The purpose of the survey was to get a fresh collection of opinions regarding the current state of ...

• IZA/IAB Linked Evaluation Dataset
  

  The IZA/IAB Linked Evaluation Dataset 1993-2010 was created in the context of the research project trying to obtain reliable estimates for the impact of active labor market policies (ALMP) and unde...

• Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, 2010 - 2019
  

  The Life in Kyrgyzstan (LiK) Study is a research-based multi-topic longitudinal survey of households and individuals in Kyrgyzstan, which Prof. Tilman Brück started in 2009. It tracks the same 3000...

• Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China
  

  The Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) consists of three parts: the Urban Household Survey, the Rural Household Survey and the Migrant Household Survey. It was initiated ...

• Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
  

  An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more like...

• Refugees in Germany
  

  The “Refugees in Germany” survey is part of a research project commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) under the title of “Accompanying evaluation of labor ma...

• STAU
  

  The data set contains the number of hourly STAUs reported on the website of the ADAC and scraped from the web programmatically by the author (variable name adac) and hourly search intensity for the...

• The Age Twist in Employers' Gender Requests: Evidence from Four Job Boards
  

  When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and gender of their employees in job ads. The researchers study the interaction of advertised requests for age and gender on one M...

• The Evolution of the Regulation of Labour in the USSR, the CIS and the Baltic States, 1985–2009
  

  We have generated new data on Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR - the CIS and Baltic States - from 1985 - 2009. We adopted the OECD approach to quan...

• Toll Index
  

  The Toll Index (TI) is a new monthly indicator for the German business cycle and is offered by the International Data Service Center (IDSC) of IZA as a service to forecasting practitioners and poli...

• Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
  

  The survey was aimed at getting detailed information on employment, reasons for unemployment and job search strategies, education, changes in places of residence and health of active adult populati...

• WageIndicator Survey
  

  The WageIndicator Survey is a continuous, multilingual, multi-country web-survey, counducted across 65 countries since 2000. The web-survey generates cross sectional and longitudinal data which mig...

• WageIndicator Survey of Living and Working in Coronavirus Times 2020-2022
  

  WageIndicator is interviewing people around the world to discover what makes the Coronavirus lockdown easier (or tougher), and what is the COVID-19 effect on our jobs, lives and mood. WageIndi...

• What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
  

  When employers’ explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women’s (men’s) share of call-backs to ...