The special mentoring sessions of the IZA/FCDO Online Short Course on Research Skills for Sub-Saharan Africa received an overwhelming response! Out of 208 applicants, 40 researchers based in Sub-Saharan Africa were matched with mentors who are experienced researchers in their own field. We are happy with the extremely positive feedback: 95% of the mentees wish…
The Global Job Database to be launched soon
A new G2LM|LIC dataset is in preparation. The Global Jobs Database harmonises all available micro datasets that contain information on labour market activities and poverty to create a multi-country macro data-set that contains: LFP, occupational choices (sector, casual vs regular, wage vs self-employment), earnings, hours worked, seasonality all by gender, education, age groups and wealth….