We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …

We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …

operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes … expenditure. We find differentiated impacts by child gender and the type of enterprise: a lower incidence of child labour for boys …

gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …

employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …