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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
Blösch, Justin; Mangal, Kunal; Singh, Niharika, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - How Labor Market Tightness and Job Search Activity Changed in the First Year of COVID-19 in India: Evidence from a Job Portal | Leveraging “Big Data” to Improve Labor Market Outcomes", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.707.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
In this project, rich administrative data on search and recruitment from a low-wage online job portal are used to study the labor market impacts of COVID-19 in India. The data from the job portal includes information on vacancies and job seekers across 2019 and 2020. It covers al... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Alemu, Getnet; Bedi, Arjun; Shiferaw, Admasu; Söderbom, Måns, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Ethiopian Manufactoring Enterprise Survey", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.330.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The data were collected during April and May 2016 on a sample of 300 Ethiopian manufacturing firms and 3.000 workers. As sampling frame the 2015 Census of Manufacturing Firms was used conducted by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia that captures all manufacturing fi... |
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
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 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
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 - 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... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
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... |
