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Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles...
Gender gap Employment DecompositionJournal Article
Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdataThis study investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions...
Vulnerable employment Gender gap Developing countriesJournal Article
Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle income countriesGender gaps in labor force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs...
Gender gap Youth EmploymentBlog
Why women are made to rely on vulnerable workThe gender pay-gap is one of the foremost indicators of gender inequality and thus a guide for women’s economic empowerment policies...
Gender Gender gap Developing countriesWorking Paper
The gender employment gap: the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet NamThis study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women’s employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam’s 2012 Labor Code...
Gender gap Women's work Female labour force participationWorking Paper
Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdataThis paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions...
Vulnerable employment Gender gap Developing countriesPolicy 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
Female managers and firm performance: Evidence from the Caribbean countriesThis paper investigates whether firm performance differs significantly when comparing firms with female and male top managers in the Caribbean region. We use survey data with detailed information on gender for firms in 13 Caribbean countries...
The Caribbean Firm performance Gender gapPresentation
Eva-Maria Egger to present evidence on reducing employment gender gaps in low- and middle-income countriesEva-Maria Egger will present evidence on reducing employment gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries at a virtual brown-bag seminar hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Malawi on Wednesday 19 May 2021. The...
Working 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
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
Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon: An unconditional quantile regression analysisCameroon’s informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs...
Gender Earnings inequality Sticky floorWorking Paper
Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment?: Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countriesGender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs...
Gender gap Youth EmploymentWorking Paper
Closing the gap: Gender and innovationInnovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist...
Female-owned enterprises Gender gap InnovationSeminar
Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso on gender gap and firm performance in developing countriesInmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 10 October 2019. Abstract – Gender gap and firm performance in developing countries This paper uses firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) to...
Research Brief
The gender wage gap in post-apartheid South AfricaThe World Bank reports that the world loses US$160 trillion in human capital wealth due to gender wage inequality every year. Inequality is not just an issue of fairness...
Labour force participation Gender gap Wage gap