Documents et rapports

Measuring Green Jobs : A New Database for Latin America and Other Regions (anglais)

A growing body of literature investigates the labor market implications of scaling up “green” policies. Since most of this literature is focused on developed economies, little is known about the labor...

Trade and Local Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico : Disentangling the Channels and the Role of Geography, Sectors, and Trade Types (anglais)

This study provides new evidence on the local labor market impacts of trade, differentiating between the employment, income, migration, and informality channels. It uses a unique dataset matching information...

The Effects of Differential Exposure to COVID-19 on Educational Outcomes in Guatemala (anglais)

This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection...

Labor Informality and Market Segmentation in Senegal (anglais)

Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase formalization across Sub-Saharan Africa, where nine out of ten workers are informal. This paper...

Scalable Early Warning Systems for School Dropout Prevention : Evidence from a 4.000-School Randomized Controlled Trial (anglais)

Across many low- and middle-income countries, a sizable share of young people drop out of school before completing a full course of basic education. Early warning systems that accurately identify students...

Impacto de la COVID-19 en la Primera Infancia (espagnol)

Tracing the Local Impacts of Exports on Poverty and Inequality in Mexico (anglais)

Evidence on the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique data set of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014...

Predicting school dropout with administrative data: new evidence from Guatemala and Honduras (anglais)

Across Latin America, school dropout is a growing concern, because of its negative social and economic consequences. Although a wide range of interventions hold potential to reduce dropout rates, policy...

How is the internet changing labor market arrangements ? evidence from telecommunications reforms in Europe (anglais)

This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet...