Economic Development and the Organisation Of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, Andrea
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB); American University Cairo; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvac056
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 2226-2270
• 关键词: gender inequality; women; EMPLOYMENT; countries; GROWTH; income

摘要

The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new dataset assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all countries and all years after 1990 where data is available. The current version covers 115 countries, observed four times on average. We use the data to show how the nature of jobs and their allocation vary within countries by wealth and gender and across countries by stages of development. We discuss evidence that shows how disparities at the micro level lead to a misuse of human potential that links individual poverty to national income.