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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India

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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

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-tier informal workers leave employment or transition into other informal statuses, most transitions are from lower-tier informal …

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The labour market impact of COVID-19 lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana

Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2021

-in-differences design, we find that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the … treated districts, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and …

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Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India

Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika; Sen, Kunal - 2023

Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in …

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Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique; Espino, Alma; Gindling, Thomas - 2019

We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...

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