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Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Alfonsi, Livia; Namubiru, Mary; Spaziani, Sara, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Meet Your Future Project: COVID-19 Phone Surveys - Students and Alumnis", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.696.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 transitioning from the educational sector into labor markets characterized by high levels... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.3416.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
An experiment across 207 secondary schools shall investigate, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country's requ... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Bassi, Vittorio; Nansamba, Aisha; Rasul, Imran, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Asymmetric Information on the Skills of Workers and Matching in the Labor Market", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.071.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 workers’ non-cognitive skills are disclosed to both sides of the market during job... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Fafchamps, Marcel; Abebe, Girum; Quinn, Simon; Caria, Stefano, 2023, "G²LM|LIC- Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.176.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 evaluated experimentally in Addis Ababa. The first intervention was a transport subsidy lowe... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Whillans, Ashley; Belal, Saika, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers During and Post-Curfew in Nairobi", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.701.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal field experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working moth... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Fiala, Nathan; Ankel-Peters, Jörg, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Uganda Youth Opportunity Program - COVID-19 Survey", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.5-698.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 how firms have built up considerable amounts of physical and human capital over the... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Ambler, Kate; Arcangelis, Guiseppe De; Yang, Dean, 2023, "G2LM|LIC – Impacts of Labeling Remittances on Migrants and their Households in the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.702.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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. To investigate how pandemic closures and restrictions affect migrants’ income and remitta... |
Nov 8, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Aleksander; Kiev International Institute of Sociology, KIIS; Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, CERT; Economics Education and Research Consortium-Ukraine, EERC; Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung-Essen, RWI, 2023, "Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.7090.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The survey 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 population of Ukraine. The survey was held in all the regions including the Crimean Autonomous... |
Nov 7, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F., 2023, "Toll Index", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.5522.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
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 policy makers alike. The TI measures the monthly transportation activity performed by h... |
Nov 7, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Muravjev, Alexander, 2023, "The Evolution of the Regulation of Labor in the USSR, the CIS and the Baltic States, 1985–2009", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.5365.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
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 quantifying regulations of the labor market and calculated detailed time series for eac... |
