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G²LM|LIC - Jobs of the World Project

About the Project

The Jobs of the World Project is a publicly available resource built to enable researchers to analyse comparable labor market outcomes across countries and time using micro data. At the core of the project is the collation and harmonisation of all available Censuses (IPUMS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for low and middle income countries. The two sources combined provides coverage of countries representing about 81 percent of the world’s population, and more than 90 percent of the population in low- and middle-income countries. A key innovation is the construction of comparable wealth measures that allow researchers to analyse labor market outcomes across wealth classes. The project has three outputs:

  1. codes that allow researchers to implement the harmonisation and produce customised data sets from publicly available IPUMS and DHS
  2. the Jobs of the World Database (JWD). The database focuses on a wide range of labor market characteristics including, but not limited to: labor force participation, type of employment (e.g., waged or self-employment), sector of employment (e.g., agriculture, manufacturing, or service), skill level (e.g., managers and professionals, white collar, or blue collar)
  3. web platform to build downloadable maps and charts based on JWD

Data is constantly updated, covering more years and countries!

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You can download the data for this project from the IDSC Dataverse. After you have clicked on the download button, you will be automatically redirected. Further instructions will then follow on the IDSC Dataverse website.

We also kindly ask researchers using the G²LM|LIC - Jobs of the World Project data to send us their paper, or a link to their paper. We will continuously upload or add links to these papers to inform the research community about ongoing progress and related work.

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