context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …

sector in Kenya. However, a careful examination of different data sources for Nairobi show that in the 1990s there has been … employees. Seven out of eight jobs in Nairobi still depend on the formal sector, through either formal or informal contracts …. Although migrants form more than three quarters of the active population in Nairobi, migration has not had a specific impact on …

theoretically informed biographic disruption theory. Setting: Interviews were conducted in two Nairobi slums (Kenya). Participants …Objectives: To characterise the experiences of heterosexual men and women living with HIV post-diagnosis and explain …: 41 HIV-infected heterosexual men and women aged 18 years or older Results: People living with HIV have divergent …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on demographic behaviour in Kenya, with particular reference to the effect on fertility … of (1) rural migration, (2) women's age at marriage, (3) children mortality, and (4) educational level - constitutes part …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …