Rural-to-urban migration in China has transformed the lives of millions of rural residents. This paper reviews empirical evidence on the impacts of migration on the welfare of individuals and households...
The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the...
Structural change has implications for various dimensions of development, including poverty reduction. However, the existing empirical literature on Sub-Saharan African economies, including Tanzania, has...
This study uses the 2020 Census to explore the determinants of interstate migration in Mexico between 2015 and 2020 and the earnings gains from migration. The study analyzes both spatial characteristics...
Economists and policy analysts have devised a wide variety of techniques to determine the impacts of various interventions on labor market outcomes. However, determining which evaluation technique should...
This paper examines the impact of Covid-19 on a host of labor market outcomes in India, using a continuous household survey. Cross-sectional trends of headline indicators like unemployment and labor force...
This descriptive paper provides a nuanced perspective on the relationship between development and migration, extending the non-parametric analysis in Clemens (2020). A few stylized patterns of migration...
Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections...
The development objective of Enhancing Labor Mobility Project is to strengthen government systems in Papua New Guinea that support workers and their households to benefit from overseas employment opportunities...
Temporary migration is widespread globally. While the literature has traditionally focused on the impacts of permanent migration on destination countries, evidence on the effects of temporary migration...
This paper explores how different investment frictions affect the patterns of responses of labor markets to tariff cuts. To investigate these patterns, this paper formulates a multi-sector dynamic model...
This goal of this report is to identify cross-sectoral policy priorities that, when occurring simultaneously, will create more and better jobs in the context of global mega-trends.
This paper examines the welfare effects of international trade on workers in a new dynamic general equilibrium discrete choice model of labor mobility, where the workers’ choice set of jobs is endogenous...
Since the launch of the Đổi Mới (economic renovation) reforms in 1986, Vietnam has successfully transformed its economy. Real GDP per capita growth has averaged 5.5 percent a year since 1990, with the...
International trade increases efficiency but also redistributes income, thus creating winners and losers. To account for the total impact and calculate redistributive effects correctly and fully, the different...
With some COVID-19 vaccines now approved and starting to be rolled-out in several countries globally, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are considering how they can restore...
Ethiopia’s job creation commission (JCC) had a goal of facilitating 150,000 Ethiopians into good jobs abroad by the end of the Ethiopian fiscal year 2012. In response to the growing youth population seeking...
Since the launch of the Đổi Mới (economic renovation) reforms in 1986, Vietnam has successfully transformed its economy. Real GDP per capita growth has averaged 5.5 percent a year since 1990, with the...
Since the launch of the Đổi Mới (economic renovation) reforms in 1986, Vietnam has successfully transformed its economy. Real GDP per capita growth has averaged 5.5 percent a year since 1990, with the...