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This research is part of the Gender Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries programme
Using a panel of firm-level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys, this study looks at labor costs in low and middle income countries
Circular migration across national borders is a long-standing feature of labor markets in sub-Saharan Africa
This brief seeks to explain the mechanism by which poverty was reduced in Ghana over the period from 1991/92 to 2012/13
Labor-intensive Public Works Programs (PWPs) are important social protection tools in low-income settings.
This project focuses on assessing the impact of the mobile banking technology on the level of urban-rural transfers within households
This paper develops new methods for studying migration using terabytes of mobile phone data from Rwanda
This brief studies the transition from adolescence to adulthood among a randomly selected cohort of men and women
Vocational training programs aimed at rapidly growing sectors have the potential to reduce skills gaps, improve income and employment potentials
This paper explores whether households in Malawi are allocating their labor optimally between farm and non-farm activities
This study develops new tests for the completeness of rural labor markets, based on asymmetric responses in farm labor to changes in household composition
The extent of bias in smallholder farm labor data is examined by conducting a randomized survey experiment amongst farming households
Bringing together evidence to highlight what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on international migration patterns.
Seasonality, Proxy Respondent and Gender Information Gaps in Ethiopia
Findings of 3 survey design experiments implemented across Fairtrade coffee households in rural Ethiopia in 3 different agricultural seasons
This paper compares descriptive labour markets across Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia
This study reports the findings of 3 randomized survey design experiments implemented among Fairtrade coffee households
Transitions between different types of formal and informal employment using retrospective job histories from a new survey of 2,000 workers
This article generates four six-component indices using bespoke and unique data collected in Kyrgyzstan
This study finds that in Tajikistan, after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, migration has no significant effect on female work hours
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