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On the link between managerial attributes and firm access to formal credit in MyanmarUsing a survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we examine demand for formal credit and the extent to which firms are self-constrained by not applying for credit or if they apply and are constrained by bank’s rejections...
Formal credit Gender Personality traitsWorking Paper
The gender productivity gap: Evidence from the Indian informal sectorWe examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal enterprises in India...
Gender Productivity gap IndiaPresentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in TanzaniaThe virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in...
Presentation
Ayu Pratiwi and Milla Nyyssölä on land rights and inter-generational resource allocations in TanzaniaOn 17 November 2021 Turku University researcher Ayu Pratiwi and UNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research . The topic of their presentation is...
Book Chapter
Gender and social mobility: Gender attitudes and women’s labour force participationFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Gender Gender attitudes NormsBook Chapter
Social mobility in China: A case study of social mobility research in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Gender Log-linear modelsPresentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social protection and gender in TanzaniaOn 29 September 2021 UNU-WIDER researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research . The topic of their presentation is Social protection and gender in...
Blog
Kanika Mahajan – IEA featured economist interview
Kanika Mahajan, a researcher engaged in UNU-WIDER's project on 'The changing nature of work and inequality', is the August 2021 featured economist of the International Economic Association (IEA)...
Inequality Labour economics GenderJournal Article
Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South AfricaThis study shows that occupations in South Africa are segregated and stratified by gender...
Gender Occupational segregation StratificationJournal Article
Do gender wage differences within households influence women's empowerment and welfare?: Evidence from GhanaUsing household data from the latest wave of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, this paper utilizes machine learning techniques – IV LASSO – that allows for the treatment of unconfoundedness in the selection of observables and unobservabl...
Wage gap Households Women's empowermentJournal Article
Gender priming in solidarity games: The Philippine contextWhat is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behavior? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can insure each other against risk of losses. We test this experimentally in a developing country setting, the Philippines...
Gender priming Gender differencesWorking Paper
Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban TanzaniaThis paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey—the Integrated Labour Force Survey—and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urba...
Labour force participation Formal Regression analysisWorking Paper
Gender disparities in financial inclusion in TanzaniaAlthough Tanzania has made notable progress in enhancing access to financial services, the gender gap in financial inclusion persists...
Gender Financial inclusion Mobile moneyWorking 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 EthiopiaSeminar
Maureen Odongo on gender disparities and financial inclusion in TanzaniaMaureen Odongo gave a presentation on 15 April 2021, as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation was held as a webinar, in collaboration with UONGOZI...