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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 modelsJournal 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
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...
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Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from IndonesiaWe suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility...
Intergenerational Mobility Education WelfareWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices: Are there gender differences in Ghana?Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality...
Intergenerational Mobility socioeconomic status Occupational choiceWorking Paper
The gendered crisis: livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India...
COVID-19 Informal sector EmploymentBlog
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 EconomicsBlog
Motherhood and the gender gap in Latin AmericaGender gaps in labour supply, income, and wages are still large despite the remarkable convergence of roles of men and women in labour markets over the last century...
Gender Motherhood Women's workWorking 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
Trade liberalization, employment, and gender in EthiopiaThis paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender dimension of employment...
Tariffs Employment Structural transformationWorking Paper
Local crime and early marriage: Evidence from IndiaThis paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early marriage—that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls...
Crime early marriage Gender