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Apr 9, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Kuhn, Peter; Shen, Kailing; Zhang, Shuo, 2024, "Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.12022.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
To measure how gendered job ads interact with workers’ application decisions and employers’ callback behavior, this data entails applicant and callback pools to job ads on internal records of a Chinese job board (XMRC.com), an Internet job board serving the city of Xiamen, over a... |
Mar 19, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Buchmann, Nina C.; Sullivan, Colin D.; Meyer, Carl, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Paternalistic Discrimination", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.807.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The study combines field experiments in Bangladesh with a structural labormodel to introduce paternalistic discrimination. This discrimination involves the differential treatment of two groups to protect one, even against its will, from harmful or unpleasant situations. The main... |
Mar 19, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Bryan, Gharad; Franklin, Simon; Abebe, Girum, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Urban Density and Labor Markets", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.409.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
Many of the world‘s poorest people live and work in dense informal settlements in Africa’s growing megacities. These communities have both positives and negatives. On one side, settlements, often located in central areas, provide workers with access to geographically proximate jo... |
Mar 12, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Acton, Riley K.; Cao, Wenjia; Cook, Emily E.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Micheal F., 2024, "The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread: Evidence from College COVID-19 Mandates", https://doi.org/10.15185/jhr2024.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The study examines the effect of college- and university-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students on county-level COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, deaths, and other health outcomes leveraging several rich sources of data. The researchers obtain information on vaccine... |
Nov 12, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Bonin, Holger; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf, 2023, "Work Situation and Stress Perception of Dependent Employees in the Year 2021 Marked by the Corona Pandemic", https://doi.org/10.15185/izarr.126.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Against the background of COVID-19 and various measures to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus, the German Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) has commissioned the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) to document the work situation and stress levels of de... |
Nov 12, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Schnedler, Wendelin, 2023, "The Broken Chain: Evidence Against Emotionally Driven Upstream Indirect Reciprocity", https://doi.org/10.15185/j.geb.2022.10.008, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document that subjects indeed ‘pay forward’ specific behavior. For example, they are less generous after having... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Heath, Rachel M.; Boudreau, Laura; Matin, Imran; Ahmed, Shakil, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.710.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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 study asked about factory shutdowns, the rate of safety measures like masks and increa... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Hsu, Eric; Wancera Wambugu, Anne, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Taming Counterfeits Markets with Consumer Information", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.620.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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: increase usage of techniques to verify seed quality, increase adoption of quality-ver... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Fehr, Dietmar; Fink, Günther; Jack, B. Kelsey, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.720466.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
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. Analyzing a total of 5,842 trading decisions over a range of items, including cash... |
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... |
