Unemployment benefits or severance pay? What are the trade-offs between unemployment benefits and severance pay? Labour Markets Francois Gerard Published 28.11.18
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 Labour Markets Sarah Baird David McKenzie Berk Özler Published 19.10.18
Imperfect substitution and development accounting Technological and institutional environments, rather than differences in human capital, are behind variations in skill premia across countries Labour Markets Francesco Caselli Antonio Ciccone Published 12.07.18
Unemployment: An advanced economy problem? A new data set based on household surveys shows that unemployment is largely a feature of advanced economies, particularly for low-skill workers Labour Markets Ying Feng David Lagakos James E. Rauch Published 27.06.18
Tackling youth unemployment Vocational training programmes, rather than apprenticeships, make it easier for youth in Uganda to move between firms and out of unemployment. Labour Markets Robin Burgess Published 30.05.18
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 Labour Markets Clément Imbert Published 27.04.18
Tackling youth unemployment: Vocational training versus apprenticeships While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts Labour Markets Oriana Bandiera Vittorio Bassi Robin Burgess Imran Rasul Munshi Sulaiman Anna Vitali Published 13.02.18
The importance of monitoring, evaluating and corrective feedback A skills development programme in Pakistan surpassed its targets largely through monitoring, experimentation, and course-correcting impact evaluations Labour Markets Ijaz Nabi Published 13.12.17
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 Labour Markets Markus Goldstein Published 07.12.17
