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We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana, we find that males have a stronger preference for...
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Female labour force participation rates have stagnated in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium. This paper aims to explain this aggregate pattern by decomposing it into the labour supply behaviour of different birth cohorts and age groups. Using representative and repeated census...
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' occupation on children's occupation. Mother's occupation is found to have a much greater impact on offspring's occupation than …
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-, and high-income countries. We find that within the same occupation jobs in low- and middleincome countries are more …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the economy, with workers moving out of agriculture and...
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whether decline in routine jobs and change in demand for skills has shaped evolution of earnings inequality in India. We rule …
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economy have declined. In addition, an analysis of occupation demand using a Katz-Murphy decomposition model further shows …
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This study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using … is consistent with the literature on Family Background Report-related corruption and mis-reporting of skills to avoid the …
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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact female labor force participation might be low in...
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Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and...
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