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Are women’s labour force participation rates improving in sub-Saharan Africa?Several sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have achieved substantial economic growth in the past 30 years. Likewise, access to education has considerably expanded, as reflected in rising enrolment rates for both men and women...
Labour supply Gender Sub-Saharan AfricaJournal Article
Female labor force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysisFemale labor force participation rates have been stagnating despite rising female education in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium...
Labour supply Gender Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Female labour supply and informal employment in EcuadorLow- and middle-income countries face a trade-off between raising tax revenue to strengthen social protection and creating incentives for the population to enter formal employment...
Labour supply Informal work Tax-benefit policyTechnical Note
Discrete choice modelling of labour supply and informal employment using ECUAMODThis technical note presents one of the modelling approaches used in Jara and Rattenhuber (2022) to estimate formal employment elasticities, namely the estimation of a discrete choice model of labour supply with informal employment...
Labour supply Informal EmploymentWorking 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
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 EducationWorking Paper
Old-age pensions and female labour supply in IndiaWhether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household’s labour supply is of considerable policy interest...
Childcare Employment Income effectWorking 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 countriesWorking Paper
The tax elasticity of formal work in African countriesA key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time...
Developing countries Informality Labour supplyJournal Article
Commodity Prices and Intra-Household Labor AllocationVolatility in commodity markets poses a distinct risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labour supplyWorking Paper
Migration impact on left-behind women’s labour participation and time-use: Evidence from KyrgyzstanThis paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan. Using the household survey data for 2011, labour supply is measured by occupational choices and working hours...
International migration Labour supply WomenWorking Paper
Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in IndiaThis paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries...
Foreign Direct Investment Human capital Labour demandWorking Paper
Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply: Evidence from VietnamVolatility in commodity markets poses an acute risk to farmers in developing countries who rely on cash crop agriculture...
Households Income Labour supplyJournal Article
Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?The Nordic model relies on high tax rates to finance an extensive welfare state...
Labour market Labour supply TaxationBook Chapter
Youth in Tanzania’s Urbanizing Mining Settlements: Prospecting a Mineralized FutureFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Economic development Labour supply Natural resourcesBook Chapter
Women’s Labour Supply and Household Insurance in AfricaThis paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women’s labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis...
Business cycles Insurance Labour supply