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Mar 18, 2025 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Boudreau, Laura; González-Torres, Ada; Chassang, Sylvain, 2025, "G²LM|LIC - Whistleblowing and Worker Wellbeing: Evidence from Bangladesh’s Garments Sector", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.510.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
In many developing countries, the private sector lacks monitoring systems to provide firms with incentives for good behavior. In part, this problem is due to weak, sometimes corrupt state institutions (Dal Bó and Finan, 2016). In part, it may also be due to principal-agent proble... |
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).... |
Nov 21, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Moore, Charity Troyer; Barboni, Giorgia; Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; Schaner, Simone; Jorgensen, Erik; Balarama, Hemawathy, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - A Tough Call: Understanding the Impact of Mobile Technology on Women’s Work, Gender Gaps, and Social Norms", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.556.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
Mobile phones can help individuals access information, networks, and resources, allowing them to benefit both socially and economically. Yet in many lower-income countries, women lag men in phone ownership and usage for a variety of economic and normative reasons. To boost women’... |
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... |
Apr 30, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix; Falk, Armin, 2023, "Replication Data for: Global Climate Change Survey", https://doi.org/10.15185/gccs.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V5
The global climate, a shared resource, needs collaborative efforts worldwide. A behavioral science perspective can help to better understand the human factor, which is crucial in addressing climate change. To improve our knowledge about the global willingness to cooperate and act... |
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 9, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Donald, Aletheia; Grosset, Florian, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Labor Supply Complementarities in Urban Côte d‘Ivoire", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.677.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
This data examines complementarities in labor supply: to what extent does a person’s desire to work at a firm depend on whether others in her social network also work at the firm? The researchers conducted two field experiments in urban Côte d’Ivoire. In the first experiment, job... |
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... |
