Documents et rapports
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New Insights on Women’s Employment in Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks (anglais)
Low take-up of job offers and high early turnover continue to affect employment of Ethiopia’s female factory workers. Despite starting factory work around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the women...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 169006 Date du document: 1 octobre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ajayi,Kehinde Funmilola,Buehren,Niklas,Cassidy,Rachel,Salcher,Isabelle
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Expectations Set High : Understanding Reservation Wages in North Macedonia (anglais)
The objectives of this study are to understand the determinants of reservation wages and measure the gap between reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 142162 Date du document: 25 septembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Petreski,Marjan,Oviedo Silva,Ana Maria,Cancho,Cesar A.
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Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (anglais)
This paper reports on a randomized experiment to investigate the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. In 2008, fourth-grade students in 207 randomly assigned schools...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8566 Date du document: 23 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera-Osorio,Felipe,De Barros,Andreas,Filmer,Deon P.
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Import substitution with labor misallocation (anglais)
This paper argues that relying on major policy distortions to create a domestic automotive industry through import substitution generates significant costs for the economy, in terms of foregone output...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8542 Date du document: 7 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Martins,Marco A.C.,Araujo,Jorge A. De Thompson R.
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Was Weber right ? the effects of pay for ability and pay for performance on pro-social motivation, ability and effort in the public sector (anglais)
This paper examines the effects of pecuniary compensation on the ability and motivation of individuals in organizations with non-pecuniary or pro-social missions. In particular, the paper compares flat...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7261 Date du document: 11 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Banuri,Sheheryar,Keefer,Philip E.
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Measuring the effect of a community-level program on women's empowerment outcomes : evidence from India (anglais)
This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment program significantly increases access to employment, physical mobility, and political...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6399 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arends-Kuenning, Mary,Baylis, Kathy,Kandpal,Eeshani
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Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences (anglais)
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5760 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fehr, Ernst,Hoff,Karla
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Agro-manufactured export prices, wages and unemployment (anglais)
This paper estimates the impacts of world agricultural trade liberalization on wages, employment and unemployment in Argentina, a country with positive net agricultural exports and high unemployment rates...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4489 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Porto,Guido
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For public service or money : understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce (anglais)
Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 53128 Date du document: 1 août 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Serneels,Pieter Maria,Lindelow,Magnus,Garcia-Montalvo,Jose,Barr,Abigail M.
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School drop-out and push-out factors in Brazil : the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty (anglais)
This paper aims to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding-the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. The authors use an extensive...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4178 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cardoso,Ana Rute,Verner,Dorte
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For public service or money : understanding geographical imbalances in the health workforce (anglais)
Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, especially in developing countries. The authors investigate the willingness to work in a rural...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3686 Date du document: 1 août 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barr,Abigail M.,Garcia-Montalvo,Jose,Lindelow,Magnus,Serneels,Pieter Maria
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Beyond Rosenstein-Rodan: the modern theory of underdevelopment traps (anglais)
The theme of this article is the importance, and the many causes, of low-level equilibrium "traps." Rosenstein-Rodan pointed out that spillovers may cause the return to an activity to increase with the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 28725 Date du document: 10 avril 2000 Auteur: Hoff,Karla
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Optimal unemployment insurance : a guide to the literature (anglais)
Unemployment insurance has been the subject of numerous theoretical and empirical studies. These studies elucidate the benefits and the cost of unemployment insurance, namely, the improved allocation of...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 20121 Date du document: 31 janvier 1999 Auteur: Karni, Edi
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Cooperation, harassment, and involuntary unemployment : an insider - outsider approach (anglais)
The paper presents a theory of involuntary unemployment which explains why the unemployed workers ("outsiders") are unable or unwilling to find jobs even though they are prepared to work for less than...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD257 Date du document: 1 février 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lindbeck,Assar,Snower, Dennis J.
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Inertia in employment (anglais)
This paper is concerned with the micro-economic foundations of employment determination at an elementary level and, in particular, with an explanation as to why employment may be insensitive to changes...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD73 Date du document: 1 février 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pyatt,Frank Graham
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A partial analysis of share tenancy relationships in Northeast Brazil (anglais)
In order to explicitly examine the implications of sharecroppers and landowners having different objective functions, and to handle a multiple-output complication, a mathematical programming structure...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP40 Date du document: 31 août 1976 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kutcher,Gary P.,Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
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Appraisal of irrigation projects and related policies and investment (anglais)
Problems encountered in the appraisal of irrigation projects in Mexico are analyzed, with emphasis on methods of handling interdependence in project appraisal at the microlevel or, more specifically, at...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP184 Date du document: 31 août 1974 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: NORTON, R.,BASSOCO, L.,SILOS, J.