This study examines jobseekers' preferences for a variety of job attributes. It is based on a
choice experiment involving 1,852 clients of the Flemish Public Employment Service (PES) …

Contributory social insurance provides essential benefits to workers when they retire and is
associated with a host of other benefits while working. Yet social insurance coverage is low …

Worker sorting into tasks and occupations has long been recognized as an important feature
of labor markets. But this sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers have inaccurate beliefs …

Continued emphasis in development economics on measurement and survey design
provides opportunities to expand the research frontier. Yet methods work, particularly survey …

The labour movement has been a key factor for cities' development and caused regional
inequality between cities. Although empirical studies have been conducted to investigate it …

We use a randomized control trial to evaluate whether digital platforms improve employment
outcomes among vocational training graduates in India. We uploaded a random subset of …

Industrial clusters are critical economic drivers of city growth, and this study suggests
strategies for increasing employment in clusters experiencing a lack of employees. Cities …

This study uses stated preference experiments to examine labour market preferences of 309
workers retrenched by the Australian automotive industry for non‐pecuniary job attributes …

Recommender systems have the potential to reduce information frictions on the labor market
by leveraging past interactions between job seekers and recruiters. This thesis presents …

In rapidly urbanizing countries, many urban inhabitants work in the informal sector. Should
policy makers try to shrink it? To answer this question, I develop a general-equilibrium …