Documents et rapports

Information Provision Interventions to Foster Educational Attainment of Adolescents and Young Adults - Skills4Dev (March 2024) (Issue 9) (anglais)

A significant educational achievement gap persists across various metrics, such as dropout rates, academic performance, and school completion rates, between adolescents and young adults in low-and middle-income...

Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries (anglais)

Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those...

Protecting Workers, Firms, and Worker-Firm Attachment During COVID-19 : Economic Considerations for the Assessment of Policy Measures (anglais)

Governments around the world provided various types of support to businesses and their employees affected by the by the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve employer-employee links, organizational knowledge...

Gender-Based Employment Segregation : Understanding Causes and Policy Interventions (anglais)

Employment segregation - the unequal distribution of female and male workers across and within jobtypes—is often at the heart of gender gaps in job quality, wage and employment trajectories. Employment...

Taking Control : How Financial Inclusion Impacts Labor Supply (anglais)

Social and familial financial transfers are common in low-income communities and have positive social effects. To address this challenge, the authors designed and implemented a financial innovation to...

Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment ? Experimental Evidence from Mexico (anglais)

Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper experimentally tests whether a six-months wage incentive can increase formal employment among...

Does the Minimum Wage Accelerate Premature Deindustrialization? : Research Note (anglais)

This research note investigates how Colombia’s structural transformation path was affected by the progression of the minimum wage between 2008 and 2019. During this period, economic activity in the manufacturing...

The Social Tax : Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply (anglais)

In low-income communities, pressure to share income with others may disincentivize work, distorting labor supply. This paper documents that across countries, social groups that undertake more interpersonal...

Colombia Jobs Diagnostic : Structural Challenges for the Creation of More and Better Jobs (anglais)

In mid-2020, the Government of Colombia launched a labor reform consultation process (Misión de Empleo) in response to a deterioration in pre-Covid19 employment indicators and changing economic and labor...

Colombia Diagnóstico de Empleo : Desafíos Estructurales para la Creación de Nuevos, Mejores y Más Inclusivos Empleos (espagnol)

Working Under Pressure : Improving Labor Productivity Through Financial Innovation (anglais)

Social and family networks play an important role as informal safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa and other development contexts, with relatives, friends, colleagues, and neighbors sharing financial resources...

Managing the Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis : Policy Options for Relief and Restructuring (espagnol)

This note discusses policy options for managing the employment impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis aimed at relief and restructuring. The note pays attention to the labor market and institutional...

Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers~^!!^ Skills : Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills (anglais)

This paper presents field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers~^!!^ skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers~^!!^ skills, giving workseekers...

Managing the Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis : Policy Options for Relief and Restructuring (anglais)

This note discusses policy options for managing the employment impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis aimed at relief and restructuring. The note pays attention to the labor market and institutional...

The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador (anglais)

As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans passed through Ecuador and more than 400,000 settled (almost 3 percent of Ecuador's population). This paper analyzes the location choices of Venezuelan migrants...

Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadoran Labor Market (anglais)

Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these...

Working Under Pressure : Improving Labor Productivity through Financial Innovation (anglais)

In developing countries, financial transfers within social and kin networks are ubiquitous and frequent. Though these transfers have social benefits, pressure to redistribute income can introduce a disincentive...

Overcoming information asymmetry in job search : the power of a reference letter (anglais)

The labor market is characterized by information gaps between work seekers and prospective employers, particularly when it comes to hiring low-skill entry level workers. Information asymmetries about workers’...

Overcoming behavioral biases in job search : the value of action planning (anglais)

Job search is a largely self-regulated process, subject to behavioralbiases that lead to sub-optimal search and employment outcomes.Within this context, we designed, implemented and tested anaction-planning...

Female Entrepreneurs : How and Why are They Different? (anglais)

This paper reviews and critically evaluates existing evidence on female entrepreneurial activity. First, we identify how female-run businesses are different, by examining both economic and non-economic...