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Subsidising stability: State employment in China
China uses state-owned enterprises to promote social stability by employing high-risk groups when unrest threats emerge
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Hard and soft skills in vocational training: Experimental evidence from Colombia
While technical skills training increases overall employment in the short term, soft skills training increases employment and earnings in the long...
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Returns to work, child labour, and schooling: The income versus price effects
Returns to child work play an important role in determining child labour and schooling through changing the opportunity costs of schooling
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Terrorism financing, recruitment, and attacks
Financial counterterrorism is under attack for being costly and ineffective, but a new study shows it can reduce terrorist attack casualties
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Subsidy policies and insurance demand
Subsidy policies combined with financial education can generate learning from experiences and promote long-run insurance take-up
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Development in an era of deglobalisation
In an era of deglobalisation, developing countries need more equality within their borders
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Informality, consumption taxes and redistribution
Taxes on consumption help governments in developing countries redistribute thanks to the presence of large informal sectors
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Prison labour: The price of prisons and the lasting effects of incarceration
Government use of prison labour can distort incentives for incarceration and have lasting negative effects on trust in legal institutions like police
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Female employment and intimate partner violence in Turkey
Refugee inflows from Syria to Turkey led to the displacement of women in the labour force, but also reduced the risk of intimate partner violence