decrease in ownership and aggregate hours for women, immi- grants and less educated over the same period. The industries with …

research confirms increasing employment, hours worked, and small business ownership as provinces began reopening their …

gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large …

employees who are under a dual condition of stress; namely, the pandemic and the risk of job loss. The hypothesis of employment …, to participate in training measures for: a similar job, remote working, and self-employment. Findings from a seemingly …

particularly at the unbanked, under-banked, and women. We find strong empirical evidence supporting the crucial role of financial … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …-in-differences. However, we do not find conclusive evidence that increased financial inclusion leads to a higher likelihood of women becoming …

.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job (i ….e., switching from salaried employment to unemployment). Meanwhile, leaving self-employment has no consequences for selfreported …We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end …

transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours …

the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …

underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed … downgrading for routine manual workers: workers in routine manual formal employment become increasingly unemployed or use … informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non …

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … economies would benefit from removing obstacles to women’s land tenure and enabling financial institutions to lend against …