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Security registration | GROUND FLOOR Morning coffee | LEVEL 2 |
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Plenary 1 | CONFERENCE ROOM 1 | Live stream Opening and welcome: Kunal Sen and Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Keynote 1 | Dismantling barriers to women's employment in developing countries by Seema Jayachandran | Slides Chair: Kunal Sen |
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| 10:30-10:40 | Make your way to meeting rooms | ||||
| 10:40-12:00 |
Parallel 1.1 The Developer’s Dilemma I Chair: Deepak Nayyar Kunal Sen Introduction about the book Andy Sumner | Slides Overview paper Arief Yusuf & Kyunghoon Kim | Slides | Survey Indonesia paper Chunbing Xing & Yanan Li | Slides China paper Peter Warr | Slides Thailand paper |
Parallel 1.2 Returns to education and occupational choice I Jamelia Harris | Slides When I grow up I want to be? The impact of a large aid sector on the occupational choice of skilled workers Bilal Muhammad Khan | Slides Education occupation mismatch in developing countries Sanjay Jain | Chair | Slides Know thyself: a decision-theoretic model of over-education and educated unemployment |
Parallel 1.3 Decent work and quality of employment I Suchita Srinivasan | Slides Worker health and safety investments and labor productivity: evidence from Vietnam Ophelia Delali Dogbe | Slides Decent job and job satisfaction among women: the Ghanaian perspective Cesar Amores | Chair | Slides Methodology for the multidimensional characterization of the quality of employment in Ecuador |
Parallel 1.4 Women's work I Manuel Pedro Duarte Santos Silva | Slides What drives female labor force participation? Comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies Jasveen Kaur Does women's participation in unwaged work promote their empowerment? Evidence from India Carla Canelas | Chair | Slides Women in post-war Rwanda: gender equality and labour market outcomes |
Parallel 1.5 Informality I Godfrey Kamutando | Slides Job reallocation, employment, and productivity in the Zimbabwean informal manufacturing sector Aarti Krishnan | Slides Micro and small enterprises and digital platform engagement in emerging economies: towards economic transformation Yuki Higuchi | Slides Management and innovation: evidence from randomized experiments and repeated surveys in Vietnam Ritam Chaurey | Chair | Slides Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | RECEPTION HALL GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| 13:00-13:45 | Poster session | EXHIBITION AREA LEVEL 2 |
ILO report launch | MEETING ROOM A 'Preparing for the future of work: National policy responses in ASEAN +6' Presenter: Damian Grimshaw |
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| 13:45-14:00 | Make your way to meeting rooms | ||||
| 14:00-15:20 |
Parallel 2.1 The Developer’s Dilemma II Chair: Ravi Kanbur Saon Ray | Slides India paper Selim Raihan | Slides Bangladesh paper Gabriela Zapata Roman | Slides Chile paper |
Parallel 2.2 Returns to education and occupational choice II Pooja Balasubramanian | Slides Subjective earnings expectation from education: A heterogeneity analysis focussing on minority groups in India Ricardo Santos | Slides Unequal expectations: decomposing inequality of salary expectations of university students Sam Jones | Chair | Slides Misinformation or mismatching? Decomposing the gap between labour market expectations and realities for Mozambican graduates |
Parallel 2.3 Job creation I Dibyendu Sundar Maiti | Slides Trade, market imperfections and labor share Lucas Ronconi | Slides Job Creation and Labor Regulation: who demands labor (de) regulation in the developing world? Insider-outsider theory revisited Charles Udomsaph | Chair | Slides Can productive jobs grow where conflict exists? Evidence from African cities and enterprise surveys 2008-2017 |
Parallel 2.4 Women's work II Franziska Dorn | Slides The impact of unpaid work on employment status in Mexico Nivedhitha Subramanian | Slides Workplace Attributes and Women’s Labor Supply Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan Synthia Kariny Silva de Santana | Chair | Slides Diversity to foster innovation: using the lens of microdata in Brazil |
Parallel 2.5 Industry, innovation and infrastructure Michelle Marshalian | Slides Winners and losers in industrial policy 2.0: An evaluation of the impacts of the Tunisian industrial upgrading program Marco Sanfilippo | Slides Roads to structural transformation in Ethiopia Kee Beom Kim | Slides As much to be gained by merchandise as manufacture? The role of services as an engine of growth Hossein Jalilian | Chair | Slides Globalisation and industrial development |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | LEVEL 2 | ||||
| 15:40-17:00 |
Parallel 3.1 The Developer’s Dilemma III Chair: Hossein Jalilian Robert Darko Osei (Recorded presentation) | Slides Ghana paper Kezia Lilenstein | Slides South Africa paper Ildephonse Musafiri | Slides Rwanda’s structural transformation challenges Kunal Sen Conclusion |
Parallel 3.2 Job creation II Pui Yi Wong | Slides The social solidarity economy and job creation: A study of ikat textile weaving in Sarawak, Malaysia and Kalimantan, Indonesia Kala Seetharam Sridhar | Slides Job accessibility and welfare from jobs in Indian cities: The case of Bengaluru Rukmani Gounder | Chair | Slides Productive job creation and a transformative tourism growth: Development considerations for the ACP economies |
Parallel 3.3 Inequality I Rekha Ravindran | Slides Impact of structural transformation on economic growth and inequality in middle-income countries Michal Podolski | Slides Dynamics of economic growth and poverty reduction - the divergent paths of Tanzania and Zambia Takahiro Yamada | Chair | Slides Industrial growth with poverty reduction and equity? Evidence from nighttime lights data in Vietnam |
Parallel 3.4 Decent work and quality of employment II Rocco Zizzamia | Slides Is employment a panacea for poverty? A mixed-methods investigation of employment decisions in South Africa Habtamu Yesigat Ayenew | Slides Does quality of jobs matter? Prospects of decent rural employment for improving agricultural production efficiency Anil Duman | Chair | Slides How to improve the quality of non-agricultural jobs for women in Turkey? The role of contract types and earnings |
Parallel 3.5 Growth and Employment in South Asia Moderator: Nagesh Kumar Anthony D'Costa | Slides Thinking differently about better jobs: lateness and structural change in India Wilhelmus J.A. van der Geest | Slides Growth, poverty reduction and inequality in Bangladesh – feasible pathways to zero-poverty by 2030 Tulika Bhattacharya | Slides Where are the jobs? Estimating skill-based employment linkages across sectors for the Indian economy: an input-output analysis Soham Sahoo | Chair | Slides Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes: evidence from India Discussants Nisha Arunatilake Sarah Khan |
| 17:00 - | Reception | RECEPTION HALL GROUND FLOOR | ||||
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Parallel 4.1 Asian Transformations Chair: Deepak Nayyar Manuel Montes | Slides Six development paths in Southeast Asia: three plus three Siddiqur Osmani | Slides Socioeconomic development in South Asia: the past 50 years Guanghua Wan | Slides Poverty and inequality in Asia 1965–2014 Rolph van der Hoeven | Slides Unemployment, employment and development in Asia |
Parallel 4.2 Informality II Bimal Kishore Sahoo | Slides Segmentation and mobility in the Indian labour market Rayees Ahmad Sheikh | Slides Segmentation in labour markets: evidence from India Rajeev Goel | Slides International movements of money and men: impact on the informal economy Jukka Pirttilä | Chair | Slides The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries |
Parallel 4.3 Women's work III Phyllis Machio | Slides The causal effect of early fertility and marriage on education and employment among young women in Kenya Chunbing Xing | Slides Money, love, and family responsibility: the migration and education decisions of young women from rural China Deepita Chakravarty | Chair | Slides Why does the work participation rate of women low in the Eastern India: a case study of Bengal with reference to Tamil Nadu |
Parallel 4.4 Structural Transformation I Kyunghoon Kim | Slides De-industrialization, re-industrialization, and the resurgence of state capitalism: the case of Indonesia Nyingtob Norbu | Slides Structural transformation, backward and forward linkages and job creation in Asia-Pacific LDCs: an input-output analysis Burhan Can Karahasan | Chair | Slides Regional deindustrialization in Turkey |
Parallel 4.5 Inequality II Vengadeshvaran Jagatheeswara Sarma | Slides Structural transformation, growth, and inequality: evidence from Viet Nam Goodness Chioma Aye | Chair | Slides Wealth inequality and CO2 emissions in emerging economies: the case of BRICS |
| 10:30-10:40 | Make your way to meeting rooms | ||||
| 10:40-12:00 |
Parallel 5.1 Resurgent Asia Presenter Deepak Nayyar | Slides Discussant Ravi Kanbur |
Parallel 5.2 Structural Transformation II Samuel Igbatayo | Slides Spurring digital revolution for decent jobs in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative analysis of Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya Piotr Lewandowski | Slides Technology, skills, and globalisation: explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data Lukas Schlögl | Slides Leapfrogging into the unknown. Southeast Asia and the future of global employment change Martina Giorgia Viarengo | Chair | Slides Human capital accumulation and artificial intelligence: the future of work and its consequences |
Parallel 5.3 Returns to Education and Occupational Choice III Indrajit Bairagya | Slides Returns to education in self-employment in India: an application of double-selection model with endogeneity Upalat Korwatanasakul | Slides Revisiting the returns to education during the rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand: a regression discontinuity approach Vincent Leyaro | Slides Employment mobility and returns to technical and vocational training: empirical evidence for Tanzania Michele Di Maio | Chair | Slides The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout: evidence from the occupied Palestinian territories |
Parallel 5.4 Financial inclusion Abdul Malik Iddrisu | Slides Does financial inclusion matter in achieving the SDGs? An empirical analysis of the welfare effects of financial inclusion in Ghana Ervin Prifti | Slides Heterogeneous impacts of cash transfers on farm profitability. Evidence from a randomized study in Lesotho Thierry Kangoye | Chair | Slides Networks, start-up capital and women’s entrepreneurial performance in Africa: evidence from Eswatini |
Parallel 5.5 Women's work IV Ines Janina Hundenborn | Slides The evolution of female and male earnings inequality in South Africa Kwadwo Opoku | Slides Understanding gender differences in formal and informal wage employment sectors in Ghana Sylvanus Afesorgbor | Chair | Slides The impact of import competition from China on gendered labor outcomes in SSA: Evidence from Ethiopian Firm-level data |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch| RECEPTION HALL GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| 13:00-13:45 |
Poster session | EXHIBITION AREA LEVEL 2 Registration for policy event | GROUND FLOOR |
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| 13:45-14:00 | Make your way to meeting rooms | ||||
| 14:00-15:20 |
Parallel 6.1 Structural transformation and poverty reduction in Asia-Pacific Chair: Hamza Ali Malik Presenter Oliver Paddison | Slides Discussants Tony Addison Prema-chandra Athukorala Verónica Amarante | Slides |
Parallel 6.2 Labour Market Discrimination Tanmoy Majilla | Slides Gender norms and the motherhood penalty: experimental evidence from India Jan Priebe | Slides Labor market discrimination of internal migrants: evidence from Indonesia Mauricio Cuesta Zapata | Chair | Slides Is there discrimination in the Ecuadorian labor market? |
Parallel 6.3 Youth employment Andaratu Achuliwor Abdallah | Slides Labour market outcomes of university graduates in Ghana Senakpon Fidele Ange Dedehouanou | Slides Working while studying: employment premium or penalty for youth in Benin? Blagica Petreski | Slides Analysis of youth underemployment in Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia Evans Osabuohien | Chair | Slides Youth unemployment and large-scale agricultural land investments in Africa: examining the relevance of Indigenous institutions and capacity in Tanzania |
Parallel 6.4 Public policies I Subhasish Dey | Slides Workfare as “collateral”: the case of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India Attakrit Leckcivilize | Slides The differential effect of the minimum wage on employment in routine occupation in Thailand Maty Konte | Chair | Slides Reforms and labor productivity in developing countries: is structural change ignored? |
Parallel 6.5 Women's work V Gabriela Zapata Roman | Slides Gender and territorial inequalities of opportunity in Chile Mariana Viollaz | Slides Does the internet reduce gender gaps? The case of Jordan Carlos Gradín | Chair | Slides Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | LEVEL 2 | ||||
| 15:40-17:00 |
Policy event | CONFERENCE ROOM 1 | Live stream Changing technologies and the jobs of tomorrow Moderator: Sharanjit Leyl Panelists: Damian Grimshaw, Benno Ndulu, Truman Packard, Marty Chen and Kunal Sen |
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Security registration | GROUND FLOOR Morning coffee | LEVEL 2 |
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Plenary 2 | CONFERENCE ROOM 1 | Live stream Chair: Mia Mikic Keynote 2 | The Globotics Transformation and Development by Richard Baldwin | Slides |
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| 10:30-10:40 | Make your way to meeting rooms | ||||
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Parallel 7.1 SA-TIED panel discussion Enterprise development for job creation and growth: evidence from South African tax administration data Chair: John Rand | Slides Aalia Cassim | Slides Regulating the temporary employment sector: the impact of amendments to the Labour Relations Act Karmen Naidoo | Slides Firm-level employment growth in South Africa: the role of innovation and exports Sofia Torreggiani | Slides Dancing with dragons: Chinese import penetration and manufacturing firms' performances in South Africa John Rand | Slides Resource misallocation and total factor productivity in South Africa |
Parallel 7.2 Gender and Livelihoods in South-East Asia Chair: Kunal Sen Presenter Elizaveta Perova | Slides Discussants Ashwini Deshpande | Slides Maria Lo Bue | Slides |
Parallel 7.3 Structural Transformation III Ishwarya Balasubramanian | Slides Emerging patterns in skills and tasks: understanding the changing occupational structure in India Suale Karimu | Slides Structural transformation, openness and productivity growth in West Africa Mohamed Ali Marouani | Slides Productivity, structural change and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half century analysis in Tunisia and Turkey Maureen Were | Chair | Slides Competitiveness and diversification of services export in sub Saharan Africa: the case of East African community |
Parallel 7.4 Migration Shweta Grover | Slides Internal migration and education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from India Mohd Imran Khan | Slides Migration, wages and employment: evidence from urban labour markets in India Kyoko Kusakabe | Chair | Slides Skills development for migrant garment workers to improve their bargaining power: cases of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the Mekong region |
Parallel 7.5 Trade and global value chains Karishma Banga | Slides Impact of global value chains on total factor productivity of Indian manufacturing firms Archanun Kohpaiboon | Slides Hiring skill workers in global production sharing: evidence of Thai manufacturing plants Juthathip Jongwanich | Slides Export diversification, margins and economic growth at industrial level: evidence from Thailand Prema-chandra Athukorala | Chair | Slides Changing patterns of trade, production and employment in global production networks: a comparative study of Southeast Asian courtiers |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | RECEPTION HALL GROUND FLOOR | ||||
| 13:00-13:45 | Poster session | EXHIBITION AREA LEVEL 2 | ||||
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Parallel 8.1 Women’s work in South Asia Chair: Naila Kabeer Ashwini Deshpande | Slides The visible and invisible barriers to Indian women working Sarah Khan | Slides Asset ownership and female empowerment in Pakistan: evidence from a natural experiment M Niaz Asadullah | Slides Marriage, work and migration: the role of infrastructure development and gender norms Nisha Arunatilake | Slides Improving labour force participation of women – A focus on low skilled workers |
Parallel 8.2 Women's work VI Hanan Nazier | Slides Female labor in Egyptian manufacturing sector: the demand side story Mina Baliamoune | Slides Trade and women’s wage employment: is North Africa different? Andy McKay | Chair | Slides Access to good work for young women and men in Africa and Asia: lessons from the ILO's School to Work Transition Survey |
Parallel 8.3 Intergenerational mobility Cuong Nguyen | Slides Intra-generational and intergenerational social mobility: Evidence from Vietnam Hamid Reza Oskorouchi | Slides In-utero exposure to conflict-related stress and later-life economic outcomes: evidence from second-generation migrants in the US Suparna Ganguly | Slides Services trade and choice of industries: studying intergenerational mobility of Indian workers Anustup Kundu | Chair | Slides Multigenerational mobility in India |
Parallel 8.4 Inequality III Ahmed Salim Nuhu | Slides Does labor share in productivity growth matter for income inequality? A comparative study of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia John Chiwuzulum Odozi | Slides Structural change and income distribution dynamics in rural Nigeria Verónica Amarante | Chair Inequality and informality revisited |
Parallel 8.5 Public policies II Christian Lambert Nguena | Slides Revisiting monetary policy effects on income distribution and wealth in Africa: Fresh empirical lessons based on Monetarist versus Keynesian approach Zainab Usman | Slides Managing risks and leveraging opportunities: the social protection policy responses to the future of work in Africa Amina Ebrahim | Chair | Slides The employment tax incentive: individual-level impacts |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee | LEVEL 2 | ||||
| 15:40-17:00 |
Plenary 3 | CONFERENCE ROOM 1 | Live stream Closing plenary Chair & Moderator: Kunal Sen Presenters: Elliott Harris, Ravi Kanbur, Naila Kabeer and Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana |
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