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A Rapid Road to Employment? The Impacts of a Bus Rapid Transit System in Lima
Scholl, Lynn - 2019
Despite the growing interest in and proliferation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around the world, their causal impacts on labor market outcomes remain unexplored. Reduced travel times for those who live near BRT stations or near feeder lines, may increase access to a wider array of job...
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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour : Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all...
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Connecting to Economic Opportunity? The Role of Public Transport in Promoting Women's Employment in Lima
Martinez, Daniel - 2019
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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Welfare Reform and Migrant's Long-Term Labor Market Integration
Kunz, Johannes; Zhu, Anna - 2023
We study the effect of reducing welfare assistance on migrants# long-term integration in Australia. The policy postponed a migrant's eligibility for benefits during their first two years in the country. It mainly affected mothers and was announced after their arrival. Using a regression...
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars - 2023
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longerterm consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...
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The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes : A Longitudinal Perspective
van Ham, Maarten - 2009
This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a job. We used individual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), a 5.3% sample of...
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Atypical Work and Employment Continuity
Addison, John T. - 2009
Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 - we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than...
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality Among Men Across 14 EU Countries, 1994-2001 : Evidence from ECHP
Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009
This paper analyses the dynamic structure of individual earnings across 14 EU countries over the period 1994-2001 using ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from a welfare perspective, particularly given the large...
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Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration
Sarvimäki, Matti - 2009
We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire population living in these areas in the remaining parts...
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