Documents et rapports
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The Gendered Impact of Social Norms on Financial Access and Capital Misallocation (anglais)
This paper provides evidence on the nature of financial constraints faced by women entrepreneurs, especially in contexts of stringent social norms. Using micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11041 Date du document: 21 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arti Grover,Viollaz,Mariana
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The Future of Work in Central America and the Dominican Republic (anglais)
Technological progress has the potential to cause significant disruption in labor markets. This report examines the impact of computers, robots, AI, and improved ICT at work on labor markets in CADR. Advanced...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 189900 Date du document: 13 août 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Harry Edmund Moroz,Viollaz,Mariana
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The Future of Work in Central America and the Dominican Republic - Appendixes (anglais)
Technological progress has the potential to cause significant disruption in labor markets. This report examines the impact of computers, robots, AI, and improved ICT at work on labor markets in CADR. Advanced...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 189900 Date du document: 13 août 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Harry Edmund Moroz,Viollaz,Mariana
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Urban Informality in Sub-Saharan Africa : Profiling Workers and Firms in an Urban Context (anglais)
This paper describes the state of informal sector work in urban Sub-Saharan Africa, using household surveys from 26 countries representing 61 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa and firm surveys...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10703 Date du document: 14 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wendy Cunningham,David Newhouse,Federica Ricaldi,Seuyong,Feraud Tchuisseu,Viollaz,Mariana,Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie
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Bhutan Labor Market Assessment Report (anglais)
Between 2001 and 2019, Bhutan made significant economic progress with an average annual growth rate of 7 percent. This progress was accompanied by significant improvements in monetary and nonmonetary standards...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 187640 Date du document: 9 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alaref,Jumana Jamal Subhi,Martinoty,Laurine,Viollaz,Mariana,Bartl,Esther Maria,Pereira Guimaraes Leite,Phillippe George,Etang Ndip,Alvin
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How Did Urban Household Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Fare during COVID-19 ? Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys (anglais)
While the impact of COVID-19 on Sub-Saharan African labor markets is well documented, there is suggestive evidence that urban households may have fared particularly poorly. This paper uses data from high-frequency...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10360 Date du document: 13 mars 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cunningham,Wendy,Tchuisseu,Feraud,Viollaz,Mariana,Edochie,Ifeanyi Nzegwu,Newhouse,David Locke,Ricaldi,Federica
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From Middle Class to Poverty : The Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Developing Countries (anglais)
This study combines pre-COVID-19 household surveys with 2020 macro data to simulate changes in household economic welfare and poverty rates through job losses, labor income changes, and non-labor (remittance)...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10304 Date du document: 13 février 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Viollaz,Mariana,Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Newhouse,David Locke,Weber,Michael
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Women in Paid Employment : A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala (anglais)
With only 32 percent of working-age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9919 Date du document: 28 janvier 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Viollaz,Mariana
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The Role of Work-from-Home in the Gender Asymmetries of COVID-19 : An Analysis for Latin America Based on High-Frequency Surveys (anglais)
This paper studies factors that could account for the asymmetric impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America, by exploiting microdata from the World Bank’s high-frequency phone household surveys conducted...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9887 Date du document: 17 décembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berniell,Inés,Gasparini,Leonardo Carlos,Marchionni,Mariana,Viollaz,Mariana
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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World? (anglais)
The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst global macroeconomic shock since the Great Depression. This brief reports which groups of workers have been hit hardest by the economic fallout of COVID-19 in developing...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 162768 Date du document: 1 août 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kugler,Maurice David,Viollaz,Mariana,Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel,Gaddis,Isis,Newhouse,David Locke,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Weber,Michael
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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World? : How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World? (anglais)
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 161310 Date du document: 1 juillet 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kugler,Lisbet,Maurice,Viollaz,Mariana,Mariana,Duque,Daniel,Gaddis,Isis,Newhouse,David Locke,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Weber,Michael
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Jobs in the Horn of Africa : Synoptic Brief (anglais)
This note provides an overview of labor markets and job outcomes in the Horn of Africa. This background note was prepared for the Horn of Africa Regional Economic Memorandum. It provides an overview of...
Type de document: Mémorandum économique sur un pays Numéro du rapport: 165148 Date du document: 21 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Farole,Thomas,Von Der Goltz,Jan,Sahr,Tove Roosendaal,Viollaz,Mariana
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How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World ? (anglais)
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9703 Date du document: 18 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kugler,Maurice David,Viollaz,Mariana,Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel,Gaddis,Isis,Newhouse,David Locke,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Weber,Michael
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Who on Earth Can Work from Home ? (anglais)
This paper reviews the emerging literature on which jobs can be performed from home and presents new estimates of the prevalence of such jobs based on the task content of occupations, their technology...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 184789 Date du document: 3 mars 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Garrote Sanchez,Daniel,Gomez Parra,Nicolas,Ozden,Caglar,Rijkers,Bob,Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge
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Who on Earth Can Work from Home ? (anglais)
This paper presents new estimates of the share of jobs that can be performed from home. The analysis is based on the task content of occupations, their information and communications technology requirements...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9347 Date du document: 31 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Garrote Sanchez,Daniel,Gomez Parra,Nicolas,Ozden,Caglar,Rijkers,Bob,Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge
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Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries : Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries (anglais)
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9241 Date du document: 11 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hatayama,Maho,Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge
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Does the Internet Reduce Gender Gaps? : The Case of Jordan (anglais)
This article investigates the link between digital technologies and female labor market outcomes in a country with one of the largest gender disparities. It exploits the massive roll-out of mobile broadband...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9183 Date du document: 13 mars 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler,Hernan Jorge
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How Technology Adoption and Trade Are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets (anglais)
This paper analyzes the simultaneous impacts and interplay of exports and technology adoption on the demand for different types of skills and aggregate labor market indicators in Indonesia over a period...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9095 Date du document: 19 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Viollaz,Mariana,Darko,Francis Addeah,Mason,Andrew D.
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Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household (anglais)
Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8981 Date du document: 14 août 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina,Viollaz,Mariana
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Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms (anglais)
The authors contribute to the technology, skills and jobs debate by exploiting a novel dataset for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 144309 Date du document: 10 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Viollaz,Mariana