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Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima

Martinez, Daniel - 2019

Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...

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A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima

Scholl, Lynn - 2019

Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...

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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour : Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022

The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all...

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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman - 2010

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

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Temporary Replacement Workers in a Matching Model with Employment at Will

Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro - 2022

In the US almost 3 per cent of employees are absent from their job for reasons other than vacation, but are still technically employed. We argue that firms may find optimal to use temporary replacement workers to fill these vacant positions. We set up a matching model with directed search and...

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The Wage Curve after the Great Recession

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are...

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Work Permit Regulations and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Qendrai, Pamela - 2022

This paper studies how the introduction of a novel residence permit for working purposes the so-called Blue Card introduced in August 2012 has affected entry-level wages of non-EU migrants in Germany. The Blue Card was targeted at non-EU university graduates with degrees received or recognized...

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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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Has the Willingness to Work Fallen During the COVID Pandemic?

Faberman, Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022

We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals' desired work...

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Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Başkaya, Yusuf Soner - 2022

This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual level data from the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey (THLFS) provided by TURKSTAT for the period 2008-2014. Unlike previous studies on wage curves for formal and informal workers, we extend...

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