Labour Markets
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Reexamining whether, when and how developing country governments should provide job training and job search support
Recent evidence offers reasons to be a little more optimistic about job training and intermediation programmes, but there remain some reasons for caution
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Labour market dynamics in low- and middle-income countries
How do labour market dynamics vary with development?
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How gender norms are perceived across the world
Data from 60 countries across six continents reveals that, in almost every country, the support for basic rights is underestimated, especially among men, suggesting that aligning perceived and actual views may be a promising policy intervention to raise female labour force participation
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Indian women are not dropping out of paid work voluntarily
What factors underlie the persistently low labour force participation rates of Indian women?
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Female Labour Force Participation
What are the barriers constraining women's labour supply? What policies can increase women’s labour supply?
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Illegal markets and contemporary slavery: How market illegality changes working relationships
Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon shows that the mahogany market's shift from legal to illegal has increased modern slavery and highlights the need for strong goverment monitoring
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Barriers to Search and Hiring in Urban Labour Markets
Barriers to search and hiring in low and lower-middle income country labour markets
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Sharing financial incentives between community health workers and their supervisors improved healthcare in Sierra Leone
A shared performance incentive scheme for health workers and their supervisors improved productivity and health outcomes and was more effective than paying the incentive to only one group
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Simplifying communication dramatically increased job application rates on a platform in Pakistan
Lowering the psychological cost of initiating job applications dramatically increases application rates without lowering the average return to each job application