Labour Markets & Migration
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Globalisation and the rise of Narcos: Understanding violent crime in urban Mexico
Manufacturing job loss, induced by competition with China, increased cocaine trafficking, thereby increasing violent crime in urban areas in Mexico
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Gender-targeted job adverts: Patterns, impacts, and mechanisms
What are the impacts of job advertisements that are targeted at specific genders?
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Helping young Ethiopians find jobs
What are the barriers that hinder young people from getting jobs in Ethiopia and how can they be overcome?
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Making a Narco: Childhood exposure to illegal labour markets and criminal life paths
Exposure to illegal labour markets in childhood leads to the formation of industry-specific human capital, putting children on a criminal life path
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Migration to end poverty
Removing barriers to internal migration can boost a country’s productivity, albeit modestly and with heterogonous effects on original populations
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How do domestic migrants impact local labour markets in developing countries?
Low-skilled natives tend to be most affected by low-skilled migrants, but are high-skilled natives most affected by high-skilled migrants?
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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