Labour Markets & Migration
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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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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