发展中国家低技能制造业的出现可以提高劳动力市场的机会,并为妇女提供其他经济效益(Heath和Mobarak,2015; Tanaka,2017)。但鉴于特征许多低技能制造业的条件差,一些研究人员质疑制造业是否对工人实际上比其替代品更好......
事实和政策
The fast growth in RCTs, field and lab experiments open up several opportunities for assembling evidence on gender inequalities in labour markets based on quantitative individual data to complement existing evidence based on opinion surveys (e.g., World Values Survey) or macro aggregates (e.g., World Economic Forum indexes). Research under this theme includes: (i) Bayesian hierarchical analysis and other Meta analyses of experiments to assess gender differences in personality traits across cultures, (ii) long-run follow-up of “empowerment” interventions to leverage existing data and ask new questions, (iii) replications and assembly of survey data to study the same question across different contexts. Questions include but are not limited to: What do the data say about female labour force participation across and within developing countries? What is the level of unemployment and under employment? What is the share of casual jobs? How does labour supply vary with the level of income? What does history tell us about key factors that helped increase women’s participation in the labour market? What are the primary constraints that female entrepreneurs face, and are these different from the constraints faced by male entrepreneurs? To what extent do socio-emotional skills and preferences, like attitudes to risk, competition, negotiation, sensitiveness to social cues play a role?
举报和工人福祉:来自孟加拉国的服装部门的证据
在许多发展中国家,私营部门缺乏监测系统,为公司提供良好行为的奖励。部分地,这个问题是由于弱,有时腐败的国家机构(DalBó和Finan,2016)。部分,它也可能是由于公司内的主要代理问题以及有限的组织能力(Bloom et ...