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Multimedia
New Ways to Support Refugees and Hosts
December 13, 2019
More than 25 million people around the world are refugees. Three quarters have been refugees for more than five years. We therefore need to move beyond short-term humanitarian assistance to medium- and long-term solutions. Learn more at /LetThemWork
WORKING PAPERS
Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
Gaurav Khanna et al.
October 31, 2019
Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentive. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in response to individual-level variation in incentives is limited. We link administrative socioeconomic microdata with the universe of arrests in Medellín over a decade. We explo...
Expanding Labor Market Access for Refugees and Forced Migrants
Cindy Huang
et al.
October 29, 2019
Many refugees & forced migrants in LMICs are still not formally allowed to work, which leads to lower economic productivity for host countries, poor living standards, and more. A joint CGD-RI initiative is working to address this issue by expanding LMA.
Blog Post
Using Regularized Labor Migration to Promote Nigeria’s Development Aims
Helen Dempster
and
Samik Adhikari
October 23, 2019
This blog post is part of a series called Let’s Talk Development, originally published by the World Bank here. The series includes contributions from external bloggers and reflects their views.
Blog Post
Carl Benedikt Frey on Sounds Robotic: A CGD Podcast
Charles Kenny
October 21, 2019
In this episode of Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Carl Benedikt Frey, co-director of the Program on Technology and Employment at the Oxford Martin School, about his fears that the wage stagnation and rocketing inequality that resulted from the first industrial revolution could be repe...
POLICY PAPERS
Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships
Michael Clemens et al.
July 15, 2019
Germany is one country piloting and implementing projects that can help alleviate such demographic pressures and maximize the potential mutual benefits of legal labor migration.
Blog Post
CGD and RI Launch New Initiative to Expand Formal Labor Market Access for Refugees
Cindy Huang
and
Jimmy Graham
June 20, 2019
On World Refugee Day this year, we are excited to note recent successes—in particular, the expansion of formal labor market access (FLMA) for refugees.