Labour Markets & Migration
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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
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Should they stay or should they go? Climate migrants and local conflicts
Migration acts as an escape valve for conflict in areas suffering from climate change, but does not increase conflict in destination countries