The labor market outcomes of COVID-19 in developing countries are just starting to be thoroughly investigated. Given that the state capacity to sustain jobs through retention schemes is much more reduced than in high-income counterparts, the capacity to work from home is much scarcer, it would not be correct to extrapolate results from other countries…
Assessing the labor market impact of COVID-19 on women with young children in Egypt
The COVID-19 Pandemic has disrupted many routines, labor and services that have helped to cope with responsibilities in general. Due to gender norms in many developing countries, this has come together with a sudden increase in the responsibilities of women within the household, as COVID closures have obligated families, and especially mothers, to attend childcare…
Migration and the Value of Social Networks
The connection between Migration and Social Networks has long been a topic of investigation within the field of Economics. Two distinct mechanisms by which Social Networks affect Migration the literature has investigated the most, are for once, when Networks function as conduits of information and hence facilitate migration, and secondly, when these work as a…
Searching with Friends
It is a fact that Social Networks play a key role in job search efforts. This is even more the case in Developing countries, where over 50% of individuals in job search report to find a job through Social Networks. This thus points to a situation where complementary knowledge among job searchers is quite important…
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
Today, 1 in 5 new jobseekers have been born in Africa, by 2050 this ratio will have changed to 1 in 3. It is evident that by such a shift, societal and economic problems in the continent will worsen the longer jobseekers are not met with more job opportunities, i.e., that the employment demand is…
Jobs of the World Project Launch
Check out the Data Portal of the project here. To see what the project is all about, register to the event here. The Jobs of the World Project is a publicly available resource built to enable researchers to analyse comparable labour market outcomes across countries and time using micro data. At the core of the…
Should Farmers Farm more? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households
It is well known within the field of development economics that farming is an economic activity confronted with risk. It is thought that farmers usually confront the risk of having their crop wasted by natural forces that vary in duration and frequency, by substituting farm- to non-farm labor. In this sense, economic literature would further…
SME’s During COVID-19
The COVID-19 Pandemic has had a negative toll on the world and its economy in the past years. Although governments and countries have learned how to counteract the effects of the virus more effectively, the economic consequences of disease-induced lockdowns, among many other factors, have especially not been overcome in developing countries. To examine the…
Summary IZA/FCDO Book Launch
“Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities” Poverty, informality and rural labour, skills training and behaviour, gender inequality, youth and child labour, and migration are some of the most pressing issues affecting labour markets in low-income countries. Which development policies will work and which strategies are likely to fail in these poorest countries? Based…
Women’s Well-Being during a Pandemic and Its Containment
Pandemics are confronted in a different context in developing countries and thus its containment has different consequences. Women may be especially vulnerable in these settings given gender norms, low availability of mental health services, and weaker state capacity. To examine how women fare in these contexts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the researchers conduct a large…