Labour Markets

Temporary managerial jobs in the Dominican Republic pushed individuals into business creation and led to positive effects on firm growth. Policymakers need to balance broad access to these opportunities with focused support to maximise firm creation ...

In Ecuador, royalties from oil extraction have increased average educational attainment and generated good jobs in the formal sector, despite reducing incentives to pursue tertiary education.

Recent evidence offers reasons to be a little more optimistic about job training and intermediation programmes, but there remain some reasons for caution

Job-search networks can be weakened by labour market interventions, such as job-search assistance, which can have adverse consequences for individuals who do not receive assistance

When eligible for unemployment benefits, workers and firms make strategic layoffs in the presence of informal labour markets

Cities with export slowdowns had larger increases in crime rates, driven by weakened labour markets

A conditional cash transfer programme was less effective in regions with more exposure to export-manufacturing jobs

Creating well-paying and secure jobs for the future must require a holistic, collaborative strategy that addresses the structural deficiencies in the labour market

Why has economic growth stuttered in Mexico despite, on the face of it, implementation of sensible economic policies by successive governments?