Labour Markets & Migration
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Labour market effects of workfare programmes: Evidence from India’s NREGA
India’s NREGA programme increased rural and urban wages and reduced rural to urban migration
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Goals and gaps: Tackling educational segregation of immigrant children
Career counselling helps close the immigrant-native gap in high-school track choice, grade repetition, and cognitive skills
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A toxic environment: Rapid growth, pollution and migration
Pollution is driving the young and well-educated out of China's cities
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Let their people come: Migrants as drivers of knowledge diffusion
Migration, particularly skilled migration, is a driver of knowledge diffusion and it can induce productivity shifts as measured by new exports
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Tackling youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships
While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training...
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International migration's long-term impact: Evidence from a lottery
Outcomes for migration lottery winners suggest the economic payoff to moving to a richer country comes immediately and persists for at least a decade
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Corruption, bribery, and public sector hiring in developing countries
Government jobs are often allocated based on bribes and patronage. How does this process work, and can this lead to good outcomes?
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The impact of skills development on adolescent girls in Uganda and Liberia
Gender-sensitive youth employment programmes combining income generation and life skills training can be effective in helping adolescent girls succeed
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Helping young people access better employment opportunities
Low-cost interventions that help young people search for employment can improve access to formal and stable jobs, raising equity in the labour market