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Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries

There is a clear need to improve our understanding of labour markets in LICs. The projects within this thematic area focus on the development of conceptual frameworks for analysis of labour markets that account for the particular institutional settings of LICs, the large informal sector and importance of micro-enterprises, etc. Moreover, this thematic area aims at improving our understanding of the relation between labour market changes, worker reallocation (structural change), trade, and aggregate productivity growth.

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Modelling Labour Markets in LICs with Imperfect Data

Despite the centrality of the labour market to the questions of poverty and inequality, African labour markets are not well understood and significant research gaps exist. These gaps have important implications: they weaken the ability of governments to design and implement effective policies and hamper the monitoring of change and the measurement of impact. Within…

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Are Labor Costs in Africa too High?

High labor costs appear to be a factor that undermines the creation of low-skill jobs in formal manufacturing firms at a large scale in several African countries. First, there exists a small number of formal manufacturing firms in Africa. These firms face higher labor costs than similar firms in numerous comparator countries, even after controlling…

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Assisting Job Search in Low-Employment Communities

Jobs are hard to find in Africa. Searching for jobs in African labour markets is expensive and time consuming. Job seekers, the young unemployed in particular, find it hard to be selected for the available positions. As a result, new employment opportunities are often not shared equally. Many economies in sub-Saharan Africa have achieved high…

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Structural Change, International Trade, and Labour Markets in a Low-Income Country

The project consists of two parts. The first part of the project seeks to understand the relationship between trade, employment, and productivity in a low-income country setting.  This topic is particularly timely in the context of recent bilateral free trade agreements and international trade negotiations, which aim to improve the trading prospects of low-income countries. …

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Labour Markets and Household Enterprises

It is a general tenet of economic theory that competitive markets, supported by adequate infrastructure and institutions, do a better job of determining prices and allocating resources than do large-scale government planning programmes. In the structural adjustment era of the 1980s-90s, this belief underpinned a historic shift away from central planning and toward market liberalisation…

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The Formal-Informal Labour Nexus and Growth

Although employment in low-income countries (LICs) is strikingly concentrated in the informal sector, the contribution of this sub-economy to the larger economy is not well understood. The traditional view holds that labour markets are segmented; the informal sector provides subsistence income, or a pool of surplus labour for the formal sector, and will likely disappear…

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IZA and the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) run the joint IZA/DFID Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM|LIC), which aims to improve worldwide knowledge on labour market issues in low-income countries (LICs).
Gender focus Starting in mid-2019, the focus will be on gender issues especially. The new programme “Growth, Gender and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries” (G2LM|LIC) will foster research that aims to guide future gender and labour market policies.

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