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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a f...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2017 6:4
Published on: 27 February 2017
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We use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky be...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2017 6:3
Published on: 14 February 2017
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A huge literature shows that childhood health and educational attainment are highly correlated. However, estimates for the effect of childhood health on educational attainment under risk generally confound the...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2017 6:2
Published on: 30 January 2017
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This paper uses novel micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide evidence on the duration, endpoint, and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low- and middle-income countri...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2017 6:1
Published on: 13 January 2017
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This paper examines the earnings penalties and premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers ...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:20
Published on: 28 December 2016
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Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a randomized impact evaluation of the youth training program Juventud y Empleo, which includ...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:19
Published on: 8 December 2016
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We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Co...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:18
Published on: 8 December 2016
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This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset from the Ghanaian manufacturing sector to analyze earnings dispersion in Ghana from 1992 to 2003, a period post extensive economic reforms. I find that varian...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:16
Published on: 28 November 2016
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This paper investigates the differential impact of employment in agriculture on rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly labor force survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (P...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:17
Published on: 28 November 2016
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This paper introduces the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey (TLMPS) of 2014, the first round of a publicly available nationally representative longitudinal household survey. We provide a description of the sam...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:15
Published on: 10 November 2016
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This paper examines the contraction in the gender wage gap in Georgia between 2004 and 2011. Behind the continuous decline at the mean lies a change in the shape of the gender wage gap across the wage distribu...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:14
Published on: 27 October 2016
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During the first decade of the twentieth century, the Uruguayan labor market showed a significant decline in wage inequality and in the incidence of labor informality, while similar changes also took place in ...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:13
Published on: 13 October 2016
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This paper uses unique experimental data from a youth training program in the Favelas, Brazil, to examine whether youth training programs can prevent treatment recipients from engaging in risk behavior—i.e., ciga...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:12
Published on: 27 September 2016
Erratum
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:11
Published on: 18 August 2016
The original article was published in IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2015 4:23
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The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal sector. Very few family firms make the transition to larger firms employing non-family labour. ...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:10
Published on: 27 May 2016
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Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a number of employment programs have begun to incorporate soft skills training, but to date...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:9
Published on: 13 May 2016
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This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China’s minimum-wage policy and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:8
Published on: 28 April 2016
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We exploit the implementation of India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers’ labor force participation and its impact on their children’s educational outcomes. U...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:7
Published on: 13 April 2016
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We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the fed...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:6
Published on: 29 March 2016
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While several studies have documented the expansion of the informal sector and its detrimental impact on development, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as ...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:5
Published on: 10 March 2016
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We contribute to the scarce literature focusing on the life outcomes of disabled people in Central and Eastern European Countries by estimating the effects of disability on employment probabilities for six Cen...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:4
Published on: 25 February 2016
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This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large sample of developed, developing, and transition economies. We find that developing countri...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:3
Published on: 11 February 2016
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What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the USA, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, ...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:2
Published on: 28 January 2016
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This paper evaluates a youth internship program in Yemen. We examine the demand for the program and find an oversupply of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and a relative undersupp...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:1
Published on: 18 January 2016
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This paper estimates the association of demographic and educational changes with earnings and returns to schooling of male workers in Brazil and Mexico. Our analysis takes into account demographic, educational...
IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2015 4:23
Published on: 29 December 2015
The Erratum to this article has been published in IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2016 5:11
