Measurement of child labor is critical for our understanding of its determinants and conditions, and for the design of social protection programs and policy. Jose Galdo (Carlton university), Ana Dammert (Carlton University) and Degnat Abebaw (Ethiopian Development Research Institute) report the findings of three survey design experiments implemented across Fairtrade coffee households in rural…
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Return Migration and Economic Outcomes
Knowledge about the economic implications of refugee return is essential in order to develop adequate policies in the post-conflict period. In this study, the researchers explore differences in economic outcomes between return migrant households and non-migrant households using panel data from Burundi, a country which experienced large scale conflict-led emigration to Tanzania and massive post-war…
Soft Skills Certificate in Uganda
Information asymmetry and frictions in the labour market are considered great obstacles to efficiency and are sources of unemployment as well as underemployment. For instance, information regarding a job seeker’s work ethic is difficult to observe for employers during an interview. It is extremely difficult for a job seeker to signal his/her true ability, especially…
Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in Africa
Jobs are difficult to find in Africa. Searching for jobs is usually expensive and time consuming. Job seekers, the young unemployed in particular, find it hard to be selected for the available positions. This raises the question: to what extent obstacles to job search contribute to labour market exclusion in Africa? To answer this question,…
Gender and Employment in Central Asia
Three working papers investigating different dimensions of female labour supply in central Asia are now available on our website. Women Left Behind in Tajikistan The consequent changes following the migration of the main income provider of a household could bring impacts on other household members’ economic decisions. It is observed that when men migrate, female…
Labour Market Segmentation in Low-Income Countries
Traditional dual sector model postulates that labour market consists of two different sectors. The model improves our collective understanding of labour market and explains the economic phenomenon in which different groups of people act as if these individuals participate in different segments of one labour market and receive different wages. Yet, economic theory provides little…
Growth and Formality: The Case of Bangladesh
The informal sector plays a significant role in many, if not all, low-income countries. Traditionally, as an economy grows, there would be a shift of informal workers to formal wage jobs. Yet, in recent years, many low-income countries have experienced substantial economic growth without dramatic formalisation of informal jobs. To better understand the relationship between…
The Financial Times Writes About Foreign Aids and Emigration
The Financial Times cited a GLM|LIC Synthesis Paper in an article about EU policies, foreign aids and migration. The study dismantles the myth that by addressing the “root causes” of migration, high-income countries could deter future migration from low-income countries. Instead, authors Michael Clemens (CGD and IZA) and Hannah Postel (Princeton University) show that foreign…
IZA/DFID Short Course 2017
Capacity building has been central to the GLM|LIC Programme. Every year, we actively hold short courses for participants from low-income countries. This year, 48 participants, among 582 applicants, were selected and sponsored by IZA/DFID through the GLM|LIC Programme to participate in the conference and the short course in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We thank instructors Marco…
Labour Markets in Western Africa
The GLM|LIC Programme has co-sponsored a two-day conference “Labour Markets in Western Africa: Evidence and Policy Lesson” in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Researchers from all over the world shared their findings on labour market issues from policy evaluation, to youth labour, to human capital, to empowerment, and to demography. The study of growth and labour markets…