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  • The Gendered Impact of Social Norms on Financial Access and Capital Misallocation (Inglés)

    This paper provides evidence on the nature of financial constraints faced by women entrepreneurs, especially in contexts of stringent social norms. Using micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS11041 Fecha del documento: 21 de enero de 2025 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Arti Grover,Viollaz,Mariana

  • The Future of Work in Central America and the Dominican Republic (Inglés)

    Technological progress has the potential to cause significant disruption in labor markets. This report examines the impact of computers, robots, AI, and improved ICT at work on labor markets in CADR. Advanced...

    Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 189900 Fecha del documento: 13 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harry Edmund Moroz,Viollaz,Mariana

  • The Future of Work in Central America and the Dominican Republic - Appendixes (Inglés)

    Technological progress has the potential to cause significant disruption in labor markets. This report examines the impact of computers, robots, AI, and improved ICT at work on labor markets in CADR. Advanced...

    Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 189900 Fecha del documento: 13 de agosto de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harry Edmund Moroz,Viollaz,Mariana

  • Urban Informality in Sub-Saharan Africa : Profiling Workers and Firms in an Urban Context (Inglés)

    This paper describes the state of informal sector work in urban Sub-Saharan Africa, using household surveys from 26 countries representing 61 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa and firm surveys...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10703 Fecha del documento: 14 de febrero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wendy Cunningham,David Newhouse,Federica Ricaldi,Seuyong,Feraud Tchuisseu,Viollaz,Mariana,Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie

  • Bhutan Labor Market Assessment Report (Inglés)

    Between 2001 and 2019, Bhutan made significant economic progress with an average annual growth rate of 7 percent. This progress was accompanied by significant improvements in monetary and nonmonetary standards...

    Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 187640 Fecha del documento: 9 de febrero de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Alaref,Jumana Jamal Subhi,Martinoty,Laurine,Viollaz,Mariana,Bartl,Esther Maria,Pereira Guimaraes Leite,Phillippe George,Etang Ndip,Alvin

  • From Middle Class to Poverty : The Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Developing Countries (Inglés)

    This study combines pre-COVID-19 household surveys with 2020 macro data to simulate changes in household economic welfare and poverty rates through job losses, labor income changes, and non-labor (remittance)...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10304 Fecha del documento: 13 de febrero de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Viollaz,Mariana,Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Newhouse,David Locke,Weber,Michael

  • Women in Paid Employment : A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala (Inglés)

    With only 32 percent of working-age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9919 Fecha del documento: 28 de enero de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Viollaz,Mariana

  • How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World? (Inglés)

    The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst global macroeconomic shock since the Great Depression. This brief reports which groups of workers have been hit hardest by the economic fallout of COVID-19 in developing...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 162768 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kugler,Maurice David,Viollaz,Mariana,Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel,Gaddis,Isis,Newhouse,David Locke,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Weber,Michael

  • Jobs in the Horn of Africa : Synoptic Brief (Inglés)

    This note provides an overview of labor markets and job outcomes in the Horn of Africa. This background note was prepared for the Horn of Africa Regional Economic Memorandum. It provides an overview of...

    Tipo de documento: Memorando económico sobre el país Número del informe: 165148 Fecha del documento: 21 de junio de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Farole,Thomas,Von Der Goltz,Jan,Sahr,Tove Roosendaal,Viollaz,Mariana

  • How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World ? (Inglés)

    This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a set...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9703 Fecha del documento: 18 de junio de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kugler,Maurice David,Viollaz,Mariana,Vasconcellos Archer Duque,Daniel,Gaddis,Isis,Newhouse,David Locke,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Weber,Michael

  • Who on Earth Can Work from Home ? (Inglés)

    This paper reviews the emerging literature on which jobs can be performed from home and presents new estimates of the prevalence of such jobs based on the task content of occupations, their technology...

    Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 184789 Fecha del documento: 3 de marzo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Garrote Sanchez,Daniel,Gomez Parra,Nicolas,Ozden,Caglar,Rijkers,Bob,Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge

  • Who on Earth Can Work from Home ? (Inglés)

    This paper presents new estimates of the share of jobs that can be performed from home. The analysis is based on the task content of occupations, their information and communications technology requirements...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9347 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Garrote Sanchez,Daniel,Gomez Parra,Nicolas,Ozden,Caglar,Rijkers,Bob,Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge

  • Does the Internet Reduce Gender Gaps? : The Case of Jordan (Inglés)

    This article investigates the link between digital technologies and female labor market outcomes in a country with one of the largest gender disparities. It exploits the massive roll-out of mobile broadband...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9183 Fecha del documento: 13 de marzo de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Viollaz,Mariana,Winkler,Hernan Jorge

  • How Technology Adoption and Trade Are Shaping Indonesian Labor Markets (Inglés)

    This paper analyzes the simultaneous impacts and interplay of exports and technology adoption on the demand for different types of skills and aggregate labor market indicators in Indonesia over a period...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9095 Fecha del documento: 19 de diciembre de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Viollaz,Mariana,Darko,Francis Addeah,Mason,Andrew D.

  • Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household (Inglés)

    Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8981 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina,Viollaz,Mariana

  • Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms (Inglés)

    The authors contribute to the technology, skills and jobs debate by exploiting a novel dataset for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used...

    Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 144309 Fecha del documento: 10 de diciembre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Viollaz,Mariana