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Creating jobs in South Asia’s conflict zones

by Lakshmi Iyer and Indhira Santos WB Policy Research Working Paper no.  WPS 6104, June 2012 This paper describes the key challenges to job creation in conflict-affected environments in South Asia. It uses household survey data since the early 2000s for Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to document the characteristics of labor markets in conflict-affected [...]

Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists

by Annabelle Krause; Ulf Rinne and Klaus F. Zimmerman IZA DP No.6100, November 2011 Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists on the academic job market using data from a [...]

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