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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile
Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020
Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...
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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers’ incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
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The impact of expanding worker rights to informal workers : evidence from child labor legislation
Lakdawala, Leah K.; Heredia, Diana Martínez; Vera … - 2023
We study the effects of a Bolivian law that introduced benefits and protections for child workers (who are overwhelmingly informal workers) and lowered the de facto legal working age from 14 to 10. We employ a difference-in-discontinuity approach that exploits the variation in the law's...
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Social protection and informality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
Busso, Matias; Camacho, Juanita; Messina, Julián; … - 2020
Latin American governments swiftly implemented income assistance programs to sustain families' livelihoods during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. This paper analyzes the potential coverage and generosity of these measures and assesses the suitability of current safety nets to deal with unexpected...
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Minimum wages in the presence of wage and non-wage sectors in India : an exploratory analysis of the non-farm sector
Sharma, Mohit; Viswanathan, Brinda - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226673
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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring …-North migration corridor over the period 1995-2020 and explores bilateral mobility patterns from 75 sending countries in Africa, the …
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Potential mobility from Africa, Middle East and EU neighbouring countries to Europe
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael; Grieveson, Richard - 2021
Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences … that of Africa and the Middle East (young and continuously increasing). Apart from demographic pressures and development … seeks to calculate long-term potential mobility from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern EU neighbouring countries to EU28 …
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Feminist mobilization, claims making and policy change : insights from Asia
Rao, Nitya; Cagna, Paola - 2016
This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate non-state actors' influence over policy processes. It argues that policy change is a complex and iterative process, and explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against...
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The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis
Cravo, Túlio; Piza, Caio - 2016
Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often based on the assumption that market failures and...
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