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Maternity benefits mandate and women’s choice of work in Viet NamDespite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed countries, how these policies affect women’s work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood...
Maternity Women's work Informal sectorSeminar
Seminar with the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on the labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdownsSimone Schotte presented the recently published WIDER Working Paper on The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Eevidence from Ghana for the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics seminar series. The research, part of the project on...
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Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labour market outcomes in an emerging economy: Evidence from IndonesiaGreater female labour market participation has important positive implications not only for women’s empowerment and the well-being of their families but also for the economy they live in...
Internet Labour market IndonesiaSeminar
Kunal Sen at WEDGE/EMERGE "Interrogating Gender" SeminarKunal Sen speaks at the WEDGE and EMERGE programme's first web-based discussion on gender equality and data. The discussion explores what we measure in labor force surveys, what we do not count, and how decisions regarding measurement shape...
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The Nordic Model — lessons for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, like the Nordic countries, is a social democratic nation with a strong welfare state...
Social protection Economic growth Labour marketJournal Article
Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in GhanaThis study provides new evidence on the effect of shortening the duration of pre‐university education on long‐term labour market outcomes in Ghana, exploiting the education reform of 1987 as a natural experiment...
Years of education Labour market Labour market outcomesWorking Paper
Gender wage gaps in Ghana: A comparison across different selection modelsThe wage of an individual is observed only when he/she is employed. However, getting employment requires two decisions...
Gender Ghana Labour marketProject workshop
Women's work – Routes to social and economic empowerment
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What works to mitigate and reduce relative (and absolute) inequality?: A systematic reviewOver the past two decades, research on the impacts of a diverse range of public policies and income inequality has seen rapid growth...
Income inequality Systematic review Tax policyWorking Paper
By choice or by force?: Uncovering the nature of informal employment in urban MexicoUsing a special module of the 2015 Mexican Labour Force Survey with information on workers’ preferences for jobs with social security coverage, I estimate that 80 per cent of informal workers in large urban areas would prefer to work in a job t...
Informal work Labour market Labour market segmentationWorking Paper
Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality: Diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discriminationInequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination...
Inequality Discrimination Job searchWorking Paper
Polarization in the South African labour market: Economy-wide scenariosTechnical change impacts both the employment intensity of production and the composition of occupations and skills of employment...
Labour market Polarization Computable general equilibriumBlog
Graduating in the shadow of the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on the transition of young Mozambicans from school to workSince appearing in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into an unprecedented health and socioeconomic crisis...
School-to-Work Labour market EducationJournal Article
Wage growth and inquality in urban China: 1988-2013Part of Journal Special Issue Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Wages Income inequality Wage growthWorking Paper
Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in GhanaThis paper provides new evidence on the causal effect of shortening the duration of pre-university education on long-term labour market outcomes in Ghana...
Years of education Labour market Labour market outcomesBlog
The labour market implications of COVID-19 for Bangladeshi womenWith the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Bangladesh on 8 March 2020 and the initiation of a lockdown on 26 March 2020, 1 the livelihoods of a significant number of people were under serious threat — with women most likely to suffer the wors...
COVID-19 Gender inequality Labour force participation