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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...