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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... |
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
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... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Singh, Niharika, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Impacts of Local Labor Market Information on Search and Employment: Evidence from India", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.582.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
This study sought to understand the impacts of providing customized and timely labor market information on the search and employment decisions of job seekers. The sample of job seekers was recruited from an online job portal, QuirkJobs.com, via advertisements on the website and o... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
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 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
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 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
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 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
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... |
