Income support for laid-off formal workers can be beneficial even in countries with high informality, but how the benefits are disbursed matters

Policymakers might seek to address the frictions that prevent potentially beneficial migration to urban areas from taking place

Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment

Higher media reporting of sexual assaults reduces women’s likelihood of working outside their homes in urban India

Providing migrants working rights and social benefits has minimal impacts on local labour markets

Novel administrative data reveal that firms share a significant amount of rents with temporary workers, but less than with their permanent employees

Asset transfers can expand household-based economic activity, but can also draw more children into the labour force when other labour is unavailable

For individuals living in El Salvador’s gang territories, restrictions on freedom of movement significantly limit one’s labour market options

Employment is more likely to be reduced when the minimum wage is binding, in the formal sector, when enforcement is strong, and for vulnerable workers