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[FOR INTERNAL REVIEW] Charles Gottlieb - What Global Labor Market Data Can Tell Us About Development, Gender, and Growth
The biggest questions in development economics keep running into the same wall: we don't have good enough data on how people actually work across most of the world. Charles Gottlieb has spent a decade trying to build it.
Topics covered:
Why the binding constraint in global labor data has shifted from availability to comparability
Land tenure regimes in sub-Saharan Africa: why "use it or lose it" land rights trap workers in agriculture and slow urbanization
Why gender gaps in labor force participation don't close with economic growth, and why the drivers are largely non-economic
How time use…
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