Documents et rapports

Nicaragua Poverty and Equity Brief : October 2024 (anglais)

Nicaragua enjoyed steady gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 4 percent on average between 2000 and 2018. The economy is expected to slow in 2024 and stabilize in the medium term. Growth prospects are...

Racial Peer Effects at Work : Evidence from Worker Deaths in Brazil (anglais)

This paper studies the impact of working with same-race coworkers on individuals’ retention at firms. Using administrative employer-employee data from Brazil, the paper exploits unexpected deaths of workers...

Mongolia Jobs Diagnostics : More Vibrant and Inclusive Labor Markets for Economic Recovery and Diversification Background Paper: Benchmarking Labor Market Indicators for Mongolia. (anglais)

This paper is a contribution to the Mongolia Jobs Diagnostic (Betcherman et al. 2022). The Jobs Diagnostic analyzes the Mongolian labor market, including the evolution of labor supply and demand as well...

Gender-Specific Transportation Costs and Female Time Use : Evidence from India’s Pink Slip Program (anglais)

Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex effects on women’s labor dynamics. The paper studies a program that offers free bus rides for women in several Indian states...

The Impact of Climate Change on Work : Lessons for Developing Countries (anglais)

What is the impact of climate change on labor? Reviewing the evidence, this paper finds five areas of potential impact. Climate change may have an immediate effect on labor demand, labor supply and time...

Does Local Employment Growth Accelerate Exits From Social Assistance? Evidence From Brazil’s Conditional Cash Transfer Bolsa Familia (anglais)

A large literature highlights the need for low- and middle-income countries to establish adaptive social safety nets responsive to labor market shifts. While much is known about safety nets' expansion...

Connecting People to Projects : A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)

Innovations to date in detecting women’s employment have focused primarily on improving individual-level questions. This paper explores an alternative approach, using data on household enterprises and...

For Labor or for Divorce ? Unilateral Divorce Laws and Women’s Labor Outcomes (anglais)

Despite substantial progress in closing the gender gap, women’s labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa remains one of the lowest globally, at a mere 18 percent. This paper investigates...

Productive Longevity : What Can Work in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? (anglais)

The world’s population is aging at dramatic speed. By 2050, most of the world’s seniors (aged 65+) will be living in what are currently low- and middle-income countries. Aging will require low- and middle-income...

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...

Jobs Diagnostics and Kazakistan’s Labor Challenges (anglais)

This labor markets power point outlines jobs diagnostics, macro and demographic growth, structural change, spatial transformation, and labor supply and demand.

The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp (anglais)

Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh...

Labor Market Transitions in Egypt Post-Arab Spring (anglais)

This paper examines the Arab Republic of Egypt’s labor market transition dynamics post–Arab Spring based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018...

Balancing Work and Childcare : Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures and Reopenings in Kenya (anglais)

This paper identifies the impact of childcare responsibilities on adult labor supply in the context of COVID-19-related school closures in Kenya. It compares changes in parents’ labor participation after...

The Pass-Through of International Commodity Price Shocks to Producers’ Welfare : Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Farmers (anglais)

International commodity price shocks may have large impacts on producers in developing countries. In this paper, a unique household panel data from Ethiopia is utilize to show that a decrease in international...

Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil (anglais)

Cash transfers have been adopted worldwide and credited with significant reductions in poverty. However, their economy-wide effects continue to spark heated debates, particularly due to potential adverse...

Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes (anglais)

What is the impact on intranational trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? This paper investigates this question...

Cooperación Técnica - Ministerio de Trabajo y Banco Mundial : Fuentes de Información y Principales Indicadores para el Análisis de Mercado de Trabajo en Colombia (espagnol)

Carbon Tax in an Economy with Informality : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Cote d’Ivoire (anglais)

In an economy with substantial informality, a carbon tax can produce fiscal co-benefits that improve economic performance in addition to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. If the carbon tax revenues are...

The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies (anglais)

In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown...