Blog

by Smriti Sharma May 2019

Women are undoubtedly doing better today than they were even 40-50 years ago. The gender gap has shrunk in many areas, including educational...

• Gender
• Caste
• Equality

Journal Special Issue

• Inequality
• child malnutrition
• Women's empowerment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries

• Economic inequality
• Multidimensional poverty
• Inequality and Well-being

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries

• Contract farming
• Gender inequality
• Mozambique

Working Paper

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is often considered one of the major tools of agribusiness development: it broadly includes those arrangements under which producers...

• Contract farming
• Gender inequality
• Mozambique

Journal Article

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider the stratification of occupations by gender, i.e. when either women or men are predominantly segregated into low-paying jobs. We propose the use of the concentration curve to...

• Gender inequality
• Low-paying occupations
• Occupational segregation

Working Paper

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador represents an interesting case as it shares many trends with other countries in the region in terms of women’s status in the labour...

• Top incomes
• Gender inequality
• Tax data

Blog

by Priyanka Harrichurran March 2021

In most countries, traditional gender roles within the household are still common due to the prevalence and persistence of patriarchal systems. These...

• South Africa
• Women's empowerment
• Female labour force participation

Working Paper

Data on female labour force participation in Bangladesh suggest that, despite the increase in female-intensive employment opportunities through microfinance, export garment manufacturing, and community-based services, the majority of working women...

• Gender inequality
• Labour market segmentation
• Mixed methods

Working Paper

This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey. Studying leisure time is important since the allocation of time outside the market provides...

• leisure
• household composition
• Gender inequality

Working Paper

This paper examines peer effects on students’ gender norm perceptions and skills formation. I use a Uruguayan nationally representative survey of 9th grade students and exploit the quasi-random variation in the proportion of female peers across...

• Peer effect
• Gender norms
• Gender inequality

Blog

by Timothy Shipp July 2021

At the UNU-WIDER offices here in Helsinki, Finland, the summer holidays are almost upon us. Looking at the list of new UNU-WIDER publications, it is...

• Inequality
• Gender equality
• Gender inequality

Blog

With the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Bangladesh on 8 March 2020 and the initiation of a lockdown on 26 March 2020, 1 the livelihoods of a...

• COVID-19
• Gender inequality
• Labour force participation

Policy Brief

There is an increasing interest in the analysis of economic inequalities in least developed countries. This is not only the result of a general social preference for equality, but also the consequence of a growing sense that highly unequal societies...

• Poverty
• Growth
• Unequal growth

Blog

by Naila Kabeer March 2022

In the late 1950s, the United Nations System of National Accounts was set up to promote the collection of internationally comparable data on...

• Unpaid labour
• Gender equality
• Gender inequality

Working Paper

This paper studies the distribution of resources within Albanian families in 2012 using a collective consumption model with two alternative specifications: the first enables the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources among male adults...

• Gender inequality
• Intrahousehold distribution
• Collective consumption models