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to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data …, with a focus on the gender dynamics of the labour market. Last, this paper identifies the areas in which the availability … of the SARS data has made new research possible, specifically in the gender dynamics of the South African labour market …
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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 … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …
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Previous economic downturns such as the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis disproportionately affected male employment due … combined with occupational work context data from O*NET to show that employment change between 2020 quarter 1 and 2 (but not …
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In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw … employment gender gap over time to the disadvantage of young women. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of our data, we apply two …
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We assess the relative importance of statistical residual-based measures of discrimination in determining indigenous Australians' perceptions of discrimination in the labour market. We find that statistical measures are largely unrelated to discrimination reports among males and negatively...
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Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this … women performing socially valued, masculine roles. Such exposure incrementally erodes gender ideologies, catalysing a … positive feedback loop, and increasing flexibility in gender divisions of labour. Women in densely populated areas also tend to …
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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 …
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probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania … wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
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paper on the gender impact of the pandemic and the consequent lockdowns and curfews in the city of Delhi, India, seeks to …
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