By Claire Paul From October 2-3, 2023, the French Development Agency (AFD), World Bank Development Group (DECGR), Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), BU Institute for Economic Development (IED) and BU Human Resources Policy Institute (HRPI) jointly sponsored the 16th International Conference on Migration and Development, hosted at Boston University. The conference was […]
There are more than 12 million foreign domestic workers in the world today; most of them are women. They represent 7.7 percent of all migrant workers and 17.2 percent of all female migrant workers. These women work in households where they clean, cook and provide childcare and eldercare. In some countries, a large share of […]
In the United States, the long-time disparity in men’s and women’s average earnings extends across skill levels. To explain why the gender pay gap persists between men and women with similar educational backgrounds and skills, researchers have documented robust differences in risk preferences and overconfidence between men and women, with women exhibiting a greater degree […]
By Emanne Khan The Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar have been described by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as “one of, if not the, most discriminated people in the world.” Since 2017, more than 750,000 Rohingya have fled Buddhist-majority Myanmar as refugees due to systematic persecution and targeted violence at the hands of Myanmar’s government, which […]
The converging roles of women and men in the labor market is one of the most significant economic and social developments of the past century. Nevertheless, gender equality in labor market outcomes has remained elusive, even for the most developed economies in the world. A growing literature documents a sharp divergence in labor market trajectories […]
By Emanne Khan The mission of the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) is to advance interdisciplinary research on the role of human capital in human development to inform policy solutions to global challenges including poverty, women’s empowerment and sustainable economic growth through investments in education and health. In Fall 2021, HCI’s Core Faculty Members published a suite of […]
By Emanne Khan Although women have made remarkable strides in the professional world, the gender pay gap stubbornly persists. On average, American women earned 84 cents for every dollar men earned in 2020, a disparity that has remained relatively consistent over the past 15 years, according to the Pew Research Center. Although a substantial body […]
By Patricia Cortés A decade ago, unemployment in Saudi Arabia reached unprecedented levels – 33 percent of young adults or women who wanted to work could not find a job. Threatened by the social and political consequences of this phenomenon, the government implemented a series of aggressive policies to reform the country’s labor market and, […]
While the United States struggles to address its most severe labor shortage on record, across the globe, Saudi Arabia faces a very different challenge. As of 2020, 72.4 percent of its population is of working age, defined by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development as the percentage of the population aged 15 to 64. […]
As part of the Human Capital Initiative Speaker Series for Spring 2021, Dr. Francesco Amodio, Assistant Professor at McGill University, will present on the role of labor markets and freelancing in development. STARTS: 4:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 28, 2020 ENDS: 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday, April 28, 2020 LOCATION: Via Zoom REGISTRATION: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrdOqpqzosH9dlcwfpGSRuxeQ_CxtnR5VE?_x_zm_rtaid=tEC2e49HQ1Gx_Z_8kV0MDA.1615575645064.390cd5f670e1df441f68dfccbfae77a0&_x_zm_rhtaid=280