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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms: Experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India

Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020

's labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …

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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare: An investigation of India's employment guarantee programme

Basu, Parantap; Natarajan, Rajesh Raj; Sen, Kunal - 2020

Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

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The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana

Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2021

-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the … treated districts, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and …