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Sep 30, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Fiala, Nathan; Ankel-Peters, Jörg, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Uganda Youth Opportunity Program - COVID-19 Survey", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.5-698.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V3
This study does examine the resilience of young micro-entrepreneurs in the informal sector and their families in rural Uganda against the COVID-19 shock. More specifically, the study investigates how firms have built up considerable amounts of physical and human capital over the... |
Mar 19, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Buchmann, Nina C.; Sullivan, Colin D.; Meyer, Carl, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Paternalistic Discrimination", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.807.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The study combines field experiments in Bangladesh with a structural labormodel to introduce paternalistic discrimination. This discrimination involves the differential treatment of two groups to protect one, even against its will, from harmful or unpleasant situations. The main... |
Mar 19, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Bryan, Gharad; Franklin, Simon; Abebe, Girum, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Urban Density and Labor Markets", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.409.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
Many of the world‘s poorest people live and work in dense informal settlements in Africa’s growing megacities. These communities have both positives and negatives. On one side, settlements, often located in central areas, provide workers with access to geographically proximate jo... |
Jan 30, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Assaad, Raul; Krafft, Caroline, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.706.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V4
The Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022 (SLMPS 2022) is the first wave of a planned longitudinal study of the Sudanese labor market designed to elucidate the way in which human resources are developed and deployed in the Sudanese economy. The SLMPS 2022 is a nationally-represent... |
Jan 29, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Germany; University of Central Asia (UCA), Kyrgyzstan; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden; German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Germany, 2023, "Life in Kyrgyzstan Study, 2010 - 2019", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.7055.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The Life in Kyrgyzstan (LiK) Study is a research-based multi-topic longitudinal survey of households and individuals in Kyrgyzstan, which Prof. Tilman Brück started in 2009. It tracks the same 3000 households and over 8000 individuals over time in all seven Kyrgyz regions (oblast... |
Jan 8, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Crepon, Bruno; Crafft, Caroline; Caria, Stefano; Abdelrahman, Nagy, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - The Impact of Subsidized Access to Nurseries and Employment Services on Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes and Child Development in Egypt", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.596.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
There are three main explanations as to why female labor force participation, globally, remains low: (1) women’s high opportunity cost of time (2) weak labor demand and (3) restrictive gender norms. The research team will test aspects of all three constraints on FLFP in a low-inc... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Heath, Rachel M.; Boudreau, Laura; Matin, Imran; Ahmed, Shakil, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.710.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
This study developed and implemented a mobile-phone-based survey of garment workers in Bangladesh, providing insights about COVID-19 responses in their workplace and the effects on workers. The study asked about factory shutdowns, the rate of safety measures like masks and increa... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Hsu, Eric; Wancera Wambugu, Anne, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Taming Counterfeits Markets with Consumer Information", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.620.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The project aimed to study whether an information campaign to improve Kenyan farmers’ ability to detect quality of agricultural inputs—such as seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides was able to help: increase usage of techniques to verify seed quality, increase adoption of quality-ver... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Shonchoy, Abu; Khondker, Bazlul Haque; Raihan, Selim, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Reducing Extreme Poverty through Skill Training for Industry Job Placement", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.238.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The experimental intervention of this study was inspired by the Department for International Development (DFID)-funded training program conducted in the Northern Bangladesh by Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK). By employing randomized controlled trial (RCT) technique, this study addresse... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Fehr, Dietmar; Fink, Günther; Jack, B. Kelsey, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.720466.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The authors investigate in a sample of over 3,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items for alternative items of similar value. Analyzing a total of 5,842 trading decisions over a range of items, including cash... |
