This brief offers a snapshot of the
state of social assistance payments as of early 2020,
especially as it relates to the transition to digital,
account-based transfers...
The February research newsletter
features the topic "Long-Term Growth: Prospects,
Policies, and the Future of Prosperity." The
newsletter's featured research highlights...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 168632Date: February 1, 2022
Understanding the aspirations and goals
of the youth is essential to developing effective employment
policies. Policies should be designed to allow educational
and professional...
Type: ReportReport#: 167431Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Costa,Valentina ;
Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo
The paper studies the relationship
between innovation efforts, innovation outputs, and
productivity, using firm-level data from six East Asian
countries. Firms are more...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9921Date: February 1, 2022Author:
De Nicola,Francesca ;
Chen,Pinyi
With only 32 percent of working-age
women in the labor market, Guatemala is an
upper-middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of
female labor force participation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9919Date: January 28, 2022Author:
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Viollaz,Mariana
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic has accelerated digitalization in ways that were
unimaginable just two years ago, highlighting the
fundamental role...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 168131Date: January 27, 2022
Between 2015 and 2020, communities
across Iraq signed local peace agreements (LPAs) aimed at
setting the foundations for peaceful relations between
internally displaced...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9916Date: January 27, 2022Author:
Parry,Jacqueline Margarethe ;
Aymerich,Olga
Using representative survey data
including Iranians and Afghan refugees in Iran in 2011–2019,
this paper explores the unequal impact of macroeconomic
fluctuations due...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9915Date: January 27, 2022Author:
Hoseini,Mohammad ;
Dideh,Mahsa Jahan
The paper examines the patterns of
economic integration of refugees in Switzerland, a country
with a long tradition of hosting refugees, a top-receiving
host in Europe,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9914Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Müller,Tobias ;
Pannatier,Pia ;
Viarengo,Martina Giorgia
In 2015, Germany welcomed close to one
million asylum seekers and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan,
the Western Balkans and elsewhere. Although the country was
often...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9913Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Albarosa,Emanuele ;
Elsner,Benjamin
Labor regulations are important
determinants of resource allocation, productivity, and labor
market outcomes. They can protect workers’ rights, enhance
job security,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168118Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Hatayama,Maho
The paper explores the properties of a
modern urban model in which households’ and
firms’ locations in the city are endogenously
determined as functions...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9910Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Sturm,Daniel Marbod ;
Takeda,Kohei ;
Venables,Anthony J.
This paper reports on a randomized
experiment conducted among Malawian agricultural households
to study nonclassical measurement error in self-reported
plot area and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9908Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Abay,Kibrom A. ;
Barrett,Christopher B. ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Moylan,Heather G. ;
Ilukor,John ;
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
Omicron cases surged as Thailand neared
its end-2021 mass vaccination target of seventy percent. The
government tightened international travel restrictions but
refrained...
Type: BriefReport#: 168040Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Puthong,Warunthorn
This study develops a computable general
equilibrium model for Nigeria, which accounts for
informality, tax evasion, and fuel smuggling. By studying
the impact of fuel...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9907Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Maruyama Rentschler,Jun Erik ;
Hosoe,Nobuhiro
Informal business activity is ubiquitous
around the world, but it is nearly always uncaptured by
administrative data, registries, or commercial sources. For
this reason,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9905Date: January 19, 2022Author:
Aga,Gemechu A. ;
Francis,David C. ;
Jolevski,Filip ;
Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis ;
Wimpey,Joshua Seth
This paper evaluates the impact of an
employment subsidy scheme covering employers’ social
contribution costs on registered employment in small firms
in Turkey. It utilizes...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9904Date: January 19, 2022Author:
Aşık,Güneş ;
Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves ;
Kluve,Jochen ;
Nas Ozen,Selin Efsan ;
Nebiler,Metin ;
Oviedo Silva,Ana Maria
With the recent surge in infection and
fatality rates, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic continues to pose serious risks to the health and
economic wellbeing...
Type: BriefReport#: 168175Date: January 18, 2022Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser,Christina
In our rapidly urbanizing world, mayors
often see migrants as a burden to their city’s labor market
and a threat to its development. Drawing on national
household surveys...
Type: ReportReport#: 166963Date: January 14, 2022Author:
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Lozano Gracia,Nancy
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