Labour Markets & Migration
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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
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Tackling youth unemployment
Vocational training programmes, rather than apprenticeships, make it easier for youth in Uganda to move between firms and out of unemployment.
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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