1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made … them. In this paper we thus provide a summary of the main sources of data on earnings and employment and their strengths …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

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 …

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in … investment and technology transfer in labour-intensive tradable industries, and thus raising labour demand and employment. …

global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in … under which such a global policy could well raise labourers' income and generate more employment. …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …

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 … employment probabilities cannot entirely be explained by observable characteristics. The finding of a positive unexplained formal …

nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …