This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...

This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...

Wal-Mart matters to the form and substance of law and social reform in several distinct ways. This article describes Wal-Mart as serving three key purposes - as target, symbol, and model - in the contemporary social reform landscape. First, Wal-Mart, the largest employer in the United States is...

ILO has predicted that economic disruptions caused by the pandemic have the potential to render the already vulnerable informal workers into deeper levels of poverty and deprivation. Despite this, there has been little to no urgency by state actors to extend protection and security to these...

As part of ISST's research initiative to understand the immediate impact of COVID-19 imposed lockdown on women workers in the informal sector, this study specifically focuses on the plight of women waste workers and segregators residing in bastis located in south west district of Delhi. The data...

The severity of COVID-19 has led the government of India to impose one of the stringent lockdown and quarantine measure in the world. India is under a national lockdown since 25 March 2020 in order to maintain ‘social distancing’ to control the spread of the disease which has resulted in...

The Construction sector share of 9% in the GDP of India. It employs roughly 5.5 crore daily wage labourers. The sector also houses the highest number of workers who have migrated. However, only 3.5 crore workers are registered with Construction Welfare Boards. The data on the construction sector...

It is a well known fact that the crisis of the Corona pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has shown its worst face to the class of informal and migrant workers. This impact study reiterates the presence of inequality between class, gender and the informal worker population. It attempts to...

Across the world, women are inevitably involved in some kind of productive and/or reproductive activity but much of their work is invisible and they are largely employed in low skilled, low paid informal sectors with little or no social security. Furthermore, women working in the informal sector...

The gender wage inequality in Korea has been higher than in any other OECD country since 1996. In this paper, we study the evolution of the differentials between genders in wages and job satisfaction from 2008 to 2018 using the Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey. Wage regressions are...