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Nov 12, 2023
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.3416.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
An experiment across 207 secondary schools shall investigate, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country's requ... |
Nov 12, 2023
Oduro, Abena; Owoo, Nkechi S.; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica, 2023, "G²LM|LIC- Differential Earnings, Household Division of Labor and Fertility Choices: An Application of the “Doing Gender” Hypothesis in Ghana", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.400.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The study employed both purposive and snowball sampling techniques for the selection of its participants. Participants were obtained from the Ashanti, Northern, Volta, Greater-Accra and Upper East regions. The sample selection was intended to reflect the five major ethnic groupin... |
Nov 12, 2023
Pande, Rohini; Allard, Jenna; Moore, Charity Troyer; Neggers, Yusuf; Jagnani, Maulik; Schaner, Simone, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - COVID-19 Returned Indian Migrant Panel", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.700.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
On March 24, 2020, the Indian Government announced a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, effective with a few hours of notice. For an estimated 40 million migrant workers in the country, this resulted in loss of income, food shortages, and uncertainty about the fu... |
Nov 12, 2023
Field, Erica; Junaid, Syed Uzair; Shahid, Alieha; Subramanian, Nivedhitha; Vyborny, Kate; Garlick, Rob, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Characterizing Urban Labor Market Effects of COVID-19 and Speeding Recovery Through a Job Search Platform", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.704.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The data collection from jobseekers and firms is done as part of the enrollment and operations for the job search platform called “Job Talash”. As part of the operations for the platform, vacancies are listed from enrolled firms on the platform and match candidates who meet the r... |
Nov 12, 2023
Bassi, Vittorio; Nansamba, Aisha; Rasul, Imran, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Asymmetric Information on the Skills of Workers and Matching in the Labor Market", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.071.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The project studies how employers and job seekers respond to credible information on skills that are difficult to observe, and how this affects matching in the labor market. Whether certificates on workers’ non-cognitive skills are disclosed to both sides of the market during job... |
Nov 12, 2023
Fafchamps, Marcel; Abebe, Girum; Quinn, Simon; Caria, Stefano, 2023, "G²LM|LIC- Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.176.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
In the original research project, two interventions that are designed to help young urban dwellers search for employment by removing spatial and informational obstacles to job search were evaluated experimentally in Addis Ababa. The first intervention was a transport subsidy lowe... |
Nov 12, 2023
Whillans, Ashley; Belal, Saika, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers During and Post-Curfew in Nairobi", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.701.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal field experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working moth... |
Nov 12, 2023
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; Sharmin, Sreyashi; Voena, Alessandra, 2023, "G²LM|LIC- Women’s Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.708.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Data is based on a phone survey of 1,545 rural Indian households collected in August 2020 in 20 districts across 6 states (Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra) in Northern India in August 2020. Households participated in a 20–30 min survey... |
Nov 12, 2023
Ambler, Kate; Arcangelis, Guiseppe De; Yang, Dean, 2023, "G2LM|LIC – Impacts of Labeling Remittances on Migrants and their Households in the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.702.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The study seeks to support the Philippine COVID-19 response by quantifying the role of international migrant remittances in helping households cope with the pandemic’s economic consequences. To investigate how pandemic closures and restrictions affect migrants’ income and remitta... |
Oct 31, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Jobs of the World Database
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed, 2023, "G²LM|LIC – Jobs of the World Database", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.jwd.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The Jobs of the World Database (JWD) is a publicly available database constructed by harmonizing the available micro-datasets which contain information on jobs and labor market activities in low- and middle-income countries to create a multi-country macro-dataset. The current ver... |
