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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
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
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; Sharmin, Sreyashi; Voena, Alessandra, 2023, "G²LM|LIC- Women’s Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.708.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 Maharashtra) in Northern India in August 2020. Households participated in a 20–30 min survey... |
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 11, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Bonin, Holger; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf, 2023, "Refugees in Germany", https://doi.org/10.15185/izarr.123.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 market programs to integrate refugees”. Aim and Conceptualisation The aim of the rese... |
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
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... |
Nov 6, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing; Helleseter, Miguel Delgado, 2023, "The Age Twist in Employers' Gender Requests: Evidence from Four Job Boards", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.9891.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
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 Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that firms’ explicit gender requests s... |
Nov 5, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Dohmen, Thomas; Shvartsman, Elena, 2023, "Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.16028.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The researchers develop an experiment to show that overprovision of costly effort is more likely to occur in work environments with working time autonomy in the absence of feedback. A key feature of the design is that it allows for a clean measurement of effort overprovision by k... |
