Measuring employment : experimental evidence from urban Ghana / Rachel Heath, Ghazala Mansuri, Bob Rijkers, William Seitz, Dhiraj Sharma
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 9263Verlag: [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Research Group & Poverty and Equity Global Practice, June 2020Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 43 Seiten) : IllustrationenGenre/Form: Andere physische Formen: Erscheint auch als: Measuring Employment: Experimental Evidence from Urban Ghana. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9263Online-Ressourcen: Zusammenfassung: Using a randomized survey experiment in urban Ghana, this paper demonstrates that the length of the reference period and the interview modality (in person or over the phone) affect how people respond in labor surveys, with impacts varying markedly by job type. Survey participants report significantly more self-employment spells when the reference period is shorter than the traditional one week, with the impacts concentrated among those in home-based and mobile self-employment. In contrast, there is no impact of the reference period on the incidence of wage employment. The wage employed report working fewer days and hours when confronted with a shorter reference period. Finally, interviews conducted on the phone yield lower estimates of employment, hours worked, and days worked among the self-employed who are working from home or a mobile location as compared with in-person interviewsPPN: PPN: 1724100718Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLDieser Titel hat keine Exemplare