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This note analyzes whether and how the country's rising urbanization levels (measured primarily by population density) are associated with nonfarm job creation and poverty reduction. By focusing on Rwanda's 416 geographic sectors for the decade from 2002 and 2012, the analysis shows that,...
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Most evaluations of public works programs in developing countries study their effects on poverty reduction and other labor market outcomes (job creation, earnings, and participation). However, very few look at other collateral effects, such as the incidence of violence. Between 2009 and 2014, El...
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Two major approaches on how to address women's land security can be identified: reforming the formal legal sector, and … embracing informal community practices. However, through research conducted among Kenya's agricultural communities, the authors … control and ultimately prevent women from obtaining land, leaving all of these systems inadequate in ensuring women's access …
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of their unassisted competitors. This study tests this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya. The …
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of occupational segregation, the program had a surprising effect. For women who at baseline were implicitly biased … against associating women with professional attributes, the likelihood that the program induced switching into the information … and communications technology sector was more than three times as large than that of unbiased women. These results suggest …
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This paper investigates the occupational mobility and job quality of young people in Indonesia and relates this to the concept of "scarring." The concept of labor market scarring in this paper is the occurrence of low or zero returns to certain types of work (for example, self-employment)....
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