The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp

Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The study involves 745 individuals in a field e...

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Main Authors:	Hussam, Reshmaan, Kelley, Erin M., Lane, Gregory, Zahra, Fatima
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOSOCIAL VALUE OF EMPLOYMENT REFUGEE WELL-BEING DISPLACED PERSONS INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT EMPLOYMENT OF REFUGEES PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING INFORMAL JOBS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099322308162234611/IDU0cdafc33f03b6b048b2083ba08812deb8d85f http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37893

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spelling	okr-10986-378932022-08-18T05:10:33Z The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp Hussam, Reshmaan Kelley, Erin M. Lane, Gregory Zahra, Fatima EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOSOCIAL VALUE OF EMPLOYMENT REFUGEE WELL-BEING DISPLACED PERSONS INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT EMPLOYMENT OF REFUGEES PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING INFORMAL JOBS Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The study involves 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: a control arm, a weekly cash arm, and an employment arm of equal value. The findings show that employment raises psychosocial well-being substantially more than cash alone, and 66 percent of the employed are willing to forego cash payments to continue working temporarily for free. Despite material poverty, the individuals in the sample both experience and recognize the nonmonetary, psychosocial value of employment. 2022-08-17T14:26:55Z 2022-08-17T14:26:55Z 2022-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099322308162234611/IDU0cdafc33f03b6b048b2083ba08812deb8d85f http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37893 English en Policy Research Working Papers;10138 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Bangladesh
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topic	EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOSOCIAL VALUE OF EMPLOYMENT REFUGEE WELL-BEING DISPLACED PERSONS INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT EMPLOYMENT OF REFUGEES PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING INFORMAL JOBS
spellingShingle	EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOSOCIAL VALUE OF EMPLOYMENT REFUGEE WELL-BEING DISPLACED PERSONS INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT EMPLOYMENT OF REFUGEES PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING INFORMAL JOBS Hussam, Reshmaan Kelley, Erin M. Lane, Gregory Zahra, Fatima The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp
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description	Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The study involves 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: a control arm, a weekly cash arm, and an employment arm of equal value. The findings show that employment raises psychosocial well-being substantially more than cash alone, and 66 percent of the employed are willing to forego cash payments to continue working temporarily for free. Despite material poverty, the individuals in the sample both experience and recognize the nonmonetary, psychosocial value of employment.
format	Working Paper
author	Hussam, Reshmaan Kelley, Erin M. Lane, Gregory Zahra, Fatima
author_facet	Hussam, Reshmaan Kelley, Erin M. Lane, Gregory Zahra, Fatima
author_sort	Hussam, Reshmaan
title	The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp
title_short	The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp
title_full	The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp
title_fullStr	The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp
title_full_unstemmed	The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp
title_sort	psychosocial value of employment : evidence from a refugee camp
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099322308162234611/IDU0cdafc33f03b6b048b2083ba08812deb8d85f http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37893
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The Psychosocial Value of Employment : Evidence from a Refugee Camp

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