Labour

Hiring skilled workers is a global challenge.

Almost all firms rely on supervisor discretion to select and motivate workers. But what are the benefits and costs of doing so?

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions.

This paper shows that self-employment shapes labor market power in low-income countries, affecting industrial development.

Economic crises can push marginally self-employed women out of employment, while self-employed men compensate with alternative sources of income.

Many small businesses in low-income countries hire employees from their kinship networks. This fact is often attributed to hiring from the kinship network reducing contracting frictions or informational asymmetries.

Worker sorting into tasks and occupations based on their skills plays a potentially important role in aggregate labor productivity. This sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers do not apply to jobs that match their skills.

This article studies the structural aggregate productivity growth (APG) decomposition with demand- and supply-side controls, determines comparative statics predictions for firms and economic outcomes, and examines patterns of input distortions.

We document capital contributions from workers to their employers in a representative sample of small firms.

There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what a¤ects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance.