Labour Markets & Migration
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How do domestic migrants impact local labour markets in developing countries?
Low-skilled natives tend to be most affected by low-skilled migrants, but are high-skilled natives most affected by high-skilled migrants?
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Do job training programmes work?
The design and incentives of work programmes need to be aligned with the skills demanded by participating firms and the labour market at large
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Unemployment benefits or severance pay?
What are the trade-offs between unemployment benefits and severance pay?
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Cash transfers and adult labour outcomes in developing countries: Why does the Econ 101 labour-leisure trade-off model lead us astray?
Missing markets, price effects, and dynamic and general equilibrium effects help explain why poor people do not work less when given cash
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Internal migration improves economic security in rural China
Government policies that facilitate internal migration not only drive economic growth, but also improve the welfare of rural households
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Agricultural productivity and rural-urban wage gaps revisited: Lessons from panel data
Cities don't make workers (much) more productive, but productive workers move to cities
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Why are Indian men surprisingly reluctant to cross state borders?
India’s system of ‘fragmented entitlements’, whereby state residents get preferential treatment by the state government, hinders internal migration
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Imperfect substitution and development accounting
Technological and institutional environments, rather than differences in human capital, are behind variations in skill premia across countries
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Unemployment: An advanced economy problem?
A new data set based on household surveys shows that unemployment is largely a feature of advanced economies, particularly for low-skill workers