Labour

The study estimates the relative impacts of three different implementation methods of small enterprise emergency financial assistance in Ghana.

This project will analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firms in Pakistan and evaluate three interventions intended to assist firms with recruitment during recovery.

This project examines how the design and introduction of a whistleblower system affect information transmission by employees and misconduct by employers.

This project aims to understand workers’ selfselection and firm’s screening on potential employees, as well as the impact of being employed at a large, modern manufacturing factory on the workers.

In South Asia, three quarters of ultra-poor households report casual labour as the dominant form of income. In urban areas, short-term construction jobs are found through social connections or by going to a “labour stand”, essentially an intersection where low-skilled labourers wait each morning for employers looking to hire for a day or two.

This project will study the effects of actual and threatened skills audits on applicants’ skill reporting decisions, applicants’ skill investment decisions, firms’ hiring decisions, and firm-applicant match quality.