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, the determinants and dynamics of individuals' participation in off-farm employment activities have not received adequate … individual-level off-farm (wage and self) employment participation rates; analyzes the extent and drivers of entry into off …-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …
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change was to narrow the definition of employment to work for pay or profit. By the revised standards, farming that is only … or mainly intended for own use is no longer considered employment, and such a farmer is no longer considered to be … employed or in the labor force. This paper analyzes the implications of the revised standards on measures of employment in Sub …
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collected by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register refugees with data from its Home Visit surveys to analyze … income poverty rates among refugees with a gender lens. It finds distinguishing between different types of male and female … principal applicant (PA) households is important in the setting of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Poverty rates for couples with …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework … and employment, women define "employment" based on a set of necessary characteristics that exclude many of their own …
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions as well as future analytical and operational work to address these differences. Field visits were conducted to uncover drivers of gender differences, as well as issues of social...
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integration measures on gender employment and wages. The study incorporates gender-differentiated employment and wages for … only some countries signing the free trade agreement. Women's employment grows faster than men's employment, as most of the … sectors that benefit due to these free trade agreements are women intensive. Growth in women's employment and wages in South …
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Accurate estimates of men's and women's employment are at the heart of understanding sources of productivity and … analysis shows that, compared with the best practice of privately interviewing adults about their employment outcomes, the … significant underreporting of employment across a range of wage and self-employment activities, with stronger effects for women …
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' employment, accounting for the complexity of measuring rural women's labor force participation, as well as data on social … issues to consider when examining rural women's employment in socioeconomic surveys, as well as a survey research agenda to …
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