by Jana Porter | Mar 11, 2021 | Knowledge & Research
Tapping into sources of foreign demand has been critical to the economic success stories of developing countries worldwide over the past fifty years. This practice of linking the domestic labour force to sources of global demand, which are many times larger than the...
by Paige Garbutt | Feb 9, 2021 | Knowledge & Research
Online professional networking platforms are widely used and offer the prospect of alleviating labor market frictions. The study explores the running of the first randomised evaluation of training work-seekers to join and use one of these platforms. Training increases...
by Paige Garbutt | Feb 9, 2021 | Knowledge & Research
The study sought to build evidence, based on what is already being implemented to address the challenge, in terms of what works in fostering better employment outcomes for young people who struggle to navigate labour market pathways. Drawing on the social development...
by Paige Garbutt | Feb 4, 2021 | Knowledge & Research
Work-seekers’ job search decisions and firms’ hiring decisions use potentially noisy information about work-seekers’ skills. The study shows that assessing work-seekers’ skills in multiple domains, giving work-seekers the assessment results, and helping them to...
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