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  1. This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in LAC countries. Its main contribution is to expose the double discrimination endured by wo...

    Authors: Carla Canelas and Silvia Salazar
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:18
  2. We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those f...

    Authors: Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani and Chunbing Xing
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:17
  3. The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants’ remittances. This paper aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It d...

    Authors: Judith Möllers and Wiebke Meyer
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:16
  4. Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we build national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia for the period 1976–2012. The result is the first dataset capturing the...

    Authors: Andrés Álvarez and Marc Hofstetter
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:15
  5. I assess the short-term impact of a public employment program on child labor and school attendance in Argentina. Public employment increases opportunities for adults outside the household, and may correspondin...

    Authors: Randall Juras
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:14
  6. This paper uses firm-level survey data to study labor reallocation and firm growth in the transition countries over 1996–2005, including benchmarking against developed market economies. The data shows rapid gr...

    Authors: Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev and Mark E Schaffer
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:13
  7. This paper investigates the effects of land titling on labor supply for households heads. The effect of legal ownership security on the adult labor supply is identified by comparing the impact of being part of...

    Authors: Mauricio Jose Serpa Barros de Moura, Marcos Ribeiro and Caio Piza
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:11
  8. This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican Republic’s youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market out...

    Authors: Pablo Ibarraran, Laura Ripani, Bibiana Taboada, Juan Miguel Villa and Brigida Garcia
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:10
  9. While a sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households, we have a limited understanding of how the predictability of these money flows affect their usage by rem...

    Authors: Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:3
  10. We investigate the short-term labor supply responses to a Conditional Cash Transfers program in Peru. Rather than comparing treated and non-treated households, we examine how benefit recipients change their la...

    Authors: Fernando Fernandez and Victor Saldarriaga
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2014 3:2
  11. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents’ time spent looking aft...

    Authors: Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Lucia Mangiavacchi and Luca Piccoli
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:13
  12. Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female empl...

    Authors: Hai Fang, Karen N Eggleston, John A Rizzo and Richard J Zeckhauser
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:12
  13. Nominal earnings in Egypt did not respond to the increase in inflation between February 2008 and February 2009, resulting in a 12.3 (9) percent decline in average (median) real earnings among 25 to 60 years ol...

    Authors: Paul Cichello, Hala Abou-Ali and Daniela Marotta
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:10
  14. This paper introduces the 2012 round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS), a publicly-available nationally representative longitudinal household survey. We describe the key characteristics of the ELM...

    Authors: Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:8
  15. In this paper we quantify inequality of opportunity in labor market outcomes in Europe and Central Asia using the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) methodology. Using data from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey w...

    Authors: Ana Abras, Alejandro Hoyos, Ambar Narayan and Sailesh Tiwari
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:7
  16. Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in t...

    Authors: Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar and Erwin R Tiongson
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:5
  17. We develop a theoretical framework that considers the role played by moral hazard and the diversity of networks and cultures in the choice of hiring channel. In favoritism contexts social networks, and particu...

    Authors: Nicoletta Berardi
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:3
  18. This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and T...

    Authors: Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Natasha Mayet
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2013 2:1
  19. The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative s...

    Authors: Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev and Klaus F Zimmermann
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2012 1:9
  20. We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and su...

    Authors: Patricia Justino and Olga N Shemyakina
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2012 1:8
  21. The period 2003–2007 was a period of economic and political changes for Ukraine. In 2005, following the Orange Revolution, the new government engaged in a series of economic reforms, among which was strengthen...

    Authors: Norberto Pignatti
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2012 1:7
  22. Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers’ fear of unemployment under different economic and labour market conditions during the last 15 years. We employ two alt...

    Authors: Vladimir Gimpelson and Aleksey Oshchepkov
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2012 1:6
  23. We model an urban labour market in a developing economy, incorporating workers’ risk attitudes. Trade-offs between risk aversion and ability determine worker allocation across formal and informal wage employme...

    Authors: John Bennett, Matthew Gould and Matthew D Rablen
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2012 1:5
  24. With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban orig...

    Authors: Sonja Fagernäs and Panu Pelkonen
    Citation: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2012 1:3