Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267374 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15637
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all countries and all years after 1990 where data is available. The current version covers 115 countries, observed 4 times on average. We use the data to show how the nature of jobs and their allocation vary within countries by wealth and gender and across countries by stages of development. We discuss evidence that shows how disparities at the micro level lead to a misuse of human potential that links individual poverty to national income.
Subjects: 
economic development
jobs
poverty
jobs of the world project
JEL: 
O11
O12
J01
J20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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