Italian researcher from McGill University, Francesco Amodio, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "Labor Market Power, Self-employment, and Development." His paper tries to compare the labor markets in lower-income countries with those of high-income countries. "there are few things that stand out: in poor countries, we typically see in the average local labor market a small number of organizations that are hiring workers, and at the same time a lot of workers pursue self-employment precisely because wages are low, or wages opportunity are scars."
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Karen Macours, chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), and senior researcher (directrice de recherche) at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) visited NCID to give a seminar entitled “Comparative Advantage and Technology Diffusion: a Menu-based Approach to Disseminationâ€. The speaker explained that a simple version of the “contact farmer†extension model can meaningfully increas...
Peruvian researcher from Pompeu Fabra University, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta, visited NCID to give a seminar entitled "Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector". He explained that pay progression has opposite effects depending on whether promotions are meritocratic or not: “In a meritocratic regime, the productivity of workers increases their performance by 28%â€.
According to León-Ciliotta, “when workers are f...