Aiding the search for good jobs: Evidence from Uganda - Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess (@LSEEcon) Vittorio Bassi (@USC) Imran Rasul (@ucl) @munshisulaimanand (@BIGD_bracu) & Anna Vitali (@dartmouth)

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🆕 How are manufacturing firms organised in Uganda? 🇺🇬

Last month, Vittorio Bassi USC Economics International Growth Centre, Jung Hyuk Lee, Ph.D., Alessandra Peter New York University, Tommaso Porzio Columbia Business School, Ritwika Sen Kellogg School & Esau Tugume BRAC Uganda outlined new evidence ⤵️: voxdev.org/topic/firms/ho…

So excited to have this project on Mafias and Firms come out as working paper. Long time in the making!

with Marco, Luigi Guiso, Rocco Macchiavello, Domenico Marchetti, and Mounu Prem

Fantastic new ECMA paper by Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek and Jonathan Weigel. Congratulations! USC Economics

With Vanessa Alviarez, Michele Fioretti, and Ken Kikkawa, we developed a pricing theory for GVCs. Our research suggests economists could've partly predicted high pass-through rates of Trump tariffs, had they factored in the US importers' bargaining power: faculti.net/two-sided-mark…

Thanks a lot Ranil Dissanayake Center for Global Development CSAE for covering our new work on the internal organization of manufacturing firms in Uganda 🙏

Most workers in developing countries are self-employed. Would there be transformational gains from organizing them into firms?

In this (possibly controversial) paper 👇 we argue “maybe not”. Why? Because there is very small labor specialization even in larger (Ugandan) firms.

🆕 How are manufacturing firms organised in Uganda? 🇺🇬

Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bassi USC Economics International Growth Centre, Jung Hyuk Lee, Ph.D., Alessandra Peter New York University, Tommaso Porzio Columbia Business School, Ritwika Sen Kellogg School & Esau Tugume BRAC Uganda outline new evidence: voxdev.org/topic/firms/ho…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨Very excited to co-organize the 5th Women in International Economics conference, hosted by International Economics Section. Please submit! Deadline is April 30th. What better day than #International_Womens_Day to celebrate and amplify diverse voices in the field?🤩

Please spread the word!

🚨🚨🚨Job Alert 🚨🚨🚨

We are looking for our next project manager for several research projects in Uganda.

Position is well-paid and based in Kampala, which is a safe and fun city to live in.

See tinyurl.com/dyadicproject2… for details on how to apply.

Please circulate, 🙏

Another great piece by David McKenzie on firm boundaries in developing countries. Highly recommended to PhD students as well to see where this new literature is going. And thanks for covering our work!

In a typical labour market, jobseekers and firms spend considerable effort searching for one another.

Our #VoxDevLit presents 5 stylised facts about the labour markets of LMICs that are consistent with the existence of meaningful barriers to search. 🧵 1/7

🆕 Reducing the size of administrative units improved local governments in India.

Today on VoxDev, Veda Narasimhan NYUAD Social Science NYU Abu Dhabi & Jeff Weaver USC Economics outline their research on the impacts of creating smaller local government polities: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Does low state capacity set a ceiling on tax rates?

Last month on VoxDev, Augustin Bergeron USC Economics, Gabriel Tourek Pitt Economics & Jonathan Weigel Haas School of Business outlined evidence from the DRC on increasing tax revenues 🇨🇩: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18828
Global #Labor Market Power
Francesco (Ciccio) Amodio McGill University CIREQ, Emanuele Brancati Sapienza Università di Roma, Peter Brummund The University of Alabama, Nicolás de Roux Economía Uniandes Uniandes, Michele Di Maio Sapienza Università di Roma
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#CEPR_DE , #CEPR_IO , #CEPR_LE #economics

The creation of smaller local government polities in #India resulted in greater public good access across multiple dimensions – village-level infrastructure, individually-targeted benefit programmes, and workfare programmes – over both the short and long run. 🇮🇳

My paper with Eliana Carranza on job training and job search assistance in developing countries is out today in the latest JEP - which also has a nice symposium on taxation and developing countries pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

How can macroeconomics (and macroeconomists) contribute to what we know about development policy?

Last week on VoxDevTalks, Doug Gollin Tufts University & Paula Bustos CEMFI talked to Tim Phillips about the emerging agenda in macro development: voxdev.org/topic/macroeco…

How the wage-setting power of firms shapes Peru’s economy 🇵🇪

Last month on VoxDev, Francesco (Ciccio) Amodio (@mcgillu), Pamela Medina Quispe (@utscmgmt Rotman School) & Monica Morlacco (@USCDornsife) explored how the labour market power of firms affects development. Read here: voxdev.org/topic/firms/ho…