Research has found that jobs for poor people can provide a direct route out of poverty and job creation is thus key to achieving several of the Sustainable ...

The Article looks at transparency in job placement data published by U.S. universities, with a particular focus on law schools and for-profit schools. ...

We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and ...

We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, ...

We study how local connections to persons in influential positions affect access to lucrative international migrant jobs and attractive government employment. ...

We develop a new theory of employee referrals into informal low - and unskilled jobs in developing country labour markets. Employers use social preferences ...

The Evaluation Department in Norad has commissioned CMI to undertake three evaluations of Norwegian development assistance to private sector development ...

The geographical imbalance of the health workforce in Tanzania represents a serious problem when it comes to delivering crucial health services to a large ...

Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public administrators ...

We study motives and explanations for network use in labour transactions in low income countries and the implications for employers, and in particular ...

On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences ...

On 28 May 2010, the United Nations Security Council made a critical decision on the future of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the roles of social networks and intermediares in recruitment and as instruments to control the workforce in lower ...

Minister EEA and EU Affairs, Vidar Helgesen, presents Norwegian priorities. Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World Bank) shares findings on expanding job opportunities in developing countries. Followed by panel debate.

Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop local content policies (LCPs) to increase job ...

In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded ...

This article analyses (1) how financial incentives (salary top-ups) and non-financial incentives (housing and education) affect nurses’ willingness ...

NRC is very efficient, professional and creative when it comes to implementation of projects and emergency response. But the management routines and coordination need to be improved.

This seminar looks at the impact of industrial jobs on health, domestic violence and political participation among women i Ethiopia. Key note Prof. Ruth ...

Tanzanian nurses are reluctant to work in rural areas. - Offering further education and free housing may convince many more to move to remote areas, says CMI director Ottar Mæstad.