A new working paper titled “Why Don’t Jobseekers Search More? Barriers and Returns to Search on a Job Matching Platform” by Kate Vyborny, Nivedhitha Subramanian, Robert Garlick and Erica Field show how reducing search costs on a job platform in Pakistan boosted applications by 600%, with constant returns on marginal applications. Find the paper for…
New dataset published!
A new dataset as part of G²LM|LIC research project “Overcoming Constraints to Female Labour Force Entry” conducted a randomized experiment with an expected sample of 2,500 female students in the final year of their undergraduate degree in Lahore, Pakistan. The baseline data was collected through face-to-face interviews, carried out by a team of experienced enumerators,…
New Working Paper from G²LM|LIC Mentoring Programme!
A new working paper from the G²LM|LIC Mentoring Programme, titled “Informality and Poverty Dynamics: Evidence with Panel Data from Nigeria” by Nneka Esther Osadolor, explores the link between rising informality and poverty in Nigeria. Find the paper for download here.