Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

employment losses and gains during the peak COVID-19 years compared with pre-pandemic levels. As part of its work on the impact … of the pandemic on informal workers, the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network … separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see Rogan and Skinner 2022). This paper …

former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry … Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these programs on employment and recidivism. We find that the programs in … both studies led to a large increase in employment driven by the transitional jobs themselves. However, the programs did …

impact of local labor market policies in developing countries. This article analyzes the impact of three employment programs … in Chile aimed at enhancing employability and wages, namely Youth Employment Subsidy (SEJ), Women's Employment Subsidy … employment opportunities. …