Jamie McCasland is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research is in development economics, with a focus on labor markets and firms. She will be joining the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Fall 2015.
2 Nov 2016 | Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland
We study small firm labour constraints in the context of a national scale, government implemented apprentice placement program in Ghana. A large body of literature has shown that microenterprises rarely grow and transition into the formal sector (Mead, 1994; Mead and Liedholm, 1998). In particular these firms rarely increase the number of employees (Mead and Liedholm,...
15 Apr 2015 | Morgan Hardy, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland
1 Apr 2011 | Joan Hamory Hicks, Jonas Hjort, Michael Kremer, Isaac Mbiti, Jamie McCasland, Edward Miguel