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Feb 21, 2025 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Asiedu, Edward; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley, 2025, "G²LM|LIC - Female Entrepreneurship and Professional Networks", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.1035.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
Despite being the only region in the world where there are more female entrepreneurs than men, the vast majority of female-owned businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa are microenterprises and women’s businesses earn 34% lower profits than male-owned ones. Identifying the constraints f... |
Dec 6, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Heath, Rachel M.; Boudreau, Laura; Das, Narayan, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - The Roles of Information and Search Frictions in Determining Working Conditions in Bangladesh’s Apparel Sector", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.529.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The emergence of low-skill manufacturing sectors in developing countries can increase labor market opportunities and provide other economics benefits for women (Heath and Mobarak, 2015; Tanaka, 2017). But in light of the poor conditions that characterize many low-skill manufactur... |
Nov 26, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Ahmed, Hamna; Said, Farah; Mahmud, Mahreen; Saif Tirmazee, Zunia, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.424.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
We conducted a baseline survey with 2,499 female final year undergraduate students between October 2018 and February 2019.1 Of them, 1,224 (49%) were randomly assigned to the treatment group. The intervention was reinforced between February-May 2019 (intervention reinforcement).... |
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... |
Aug 29, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Dercon, Stefan; Girum, Abebe; Hensel, Lukas; Caria, Stefano, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Can Temporary Financial Incentives for Female Industrial Workers Lead to Long-Term Retention and a Better Allocation of Talent?", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.538.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
A G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by the University of Oxford. In this project, the research team studies whether worker turnover contributes to the misallocation of talent in low-income countries. To this end, they will experimentally evaluate the impacts of offering financi... |
Aug 22, 2024 - Research and Replication Data for Labor Economics
Australian Government Department of Education, 2024, "Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, 2015 cohort (Version 7.0)", https://doi.org/10.4225/87/PJO7GB, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
In 2015 a nationally representative sample of about 14,500 15 year-old students was selected to participate in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). This group of young people became the sixth cohort of the LSAY program (LSAY Y15). As part of PISA, ass... |
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... |
Mar 5, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Australian National University (ANU); Beijing Normal University; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2024, "Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.7680.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V3
The Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) consists of three parts: the Urban Household Survey, the Rural Household Survey and the Migrant Household Survey. It was initiated by a group of researchers at the Australian National University, the University of... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Alfonsi, Livia; Namubiru, Mary; Spaziani, Sara, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Meet Your Future Project: COVID-19 Phone Surveys - Students and Alumnis", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.696.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The Meet Your Future Project (MYF) is an RCT designed in partnership with BRAC Uganda to investigate the relative importance of several barriers to quality employment that students face when transitioning from the educational sector into labor markets characterized by high levels... |
