Providing poor Indian women with more control of their potential wages increased labour force participation and led to more progressive gender norms

Social norms help sustain wage floors with workers taking jobs at wage cuts in private, but rejecting them in public due to fear of sanctions

A study in urban India reveals that workers would be willing to reduce their wages for greater job security while also incorporating flexibility

The return of Yugoslavian refugees from Germany in the 1990s explains the stronger performance of exports to the rest of the world in industries...

Evidence from Uganda suggests that vocational training is more effective in tackling youth unemployment than apprenticeships

References from former employers help women to find jobs and assist hiring firms in selecting high-ability candidates

Can firms attract better candidates by paying people to apply for jobs?

Soft skills certificates improve the allocation of workers to jobs, and raise earnings conditional on employment

Manufacturing job loss, induced by competition with China, increased cocaine trafficking, thereby increasing violent crime in urban areas in Mexico