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Book Chapter
Gender and social mobility: Gender attitudes and women’s labour force participationFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Gender Gender attitudes NormsWorking Paper
Norms that matter: Exploring the distribution of women’s work between income generation, expenditure-saving, and unpaid domestic responsibilities in IndiaBased on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women’s low labour force participation. In developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers...
Female labour force participation India Social normsPresentation
Panel on the ‘Structure and drivers of the quantity and quality of women’s work in Latin America’ at the 29th Annual International Association for Feminist EconomicsThe UNU-WIDER project on ‘Women’s work — routes to economic and social empowerment’ presents at the 29th IAFFE Annual Conference, held virtually between 22 – 25 June 2021.
Policy Brief
The economic gains of reducing the employment gender gap in MoroccoMiddle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, including Morocco, currently record the lowest rates of female labour force participation (FLFP) in the world...
Female labour force participation Gender gap EmploymentWorking Paper
Young women’s transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia: A gendered life-course perspectiveWe investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative quantitative and qualitative longitudinal analysis through the whole childhood of the individual into early adulthood, from age 8 up to age 2...
Gender Female labour force participation EthiopiaWorking Paper
The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap: Evidence from MoroccoThe present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We confront two different approaches...
Morocco Female labour force participation Gender gapBlog
Supply or demand? Exploring the mechanisms behind the rise of female labour force participation in MexicoAt the global level, gender gaps in labour force participation have narrowed and over half a billion women have joined the workforce in the last 30 years...
Women's work Female labour force participation EconomicsWorking Paper
Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysisFemale labour force participation rates have stagnated in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium...
Labour supply Gender Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labour market outcomes in an emerging economy: Evidence from IndonesiaGreater female labour market participation has important positive implications not only for women’s empowerment and the well-being of their families but also for the economy they live in...
Internet Labour market IndonesiaWorking Paper
Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women’s formal work in rural GhanaWe study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour...
Female labour force participation Ghana Decision makingWorking Paper
The rise in women’s labour force participation in Mexico: Supply vs demand factorsWe estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico...
Female labour force participation Mexico EducationSeminar
UNU-WIDER researchers present research on maternal employment and children's outcomes at World Bank seminar
Working Paper
Gender and social mobility: Exploring gender attitudes and women’s labour force participationWomen have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility...
Gender Gender attitudes NormsWorking Paper
Marriage, work, and migration: The role of infrastructure development and gender normsTraditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries...
Migration Marriage markets Female labour force participationWorking Paper
Social norms as a barrier to women’s employment in developing countriesThis paper discusses cultural barriers to women’s participation and success in the labor market in developing countries...
Culture Institutions Developing countriesPlenary session
Dismantling barriers to women's employment in developing countriesWatch the live stream recording This talk will discuss barriers to women’s participation in the labor force in low-income countries. First, services that free up women’s time to work outside the home, including child care services, are...
Women's economic empowerment Women's work Gender norms