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Gender Disparities in Employment and Earnings in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...

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Assessing Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings in Africa : The Case of Eswatini

Brixiová, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...

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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Kohara, Miki - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs.We first show …

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The Effect of Extended Unemployment Benefit on the Job Finding Hazards : A Quasi-Experiment in Japan

Machikita, Tomohiro - 2013

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

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