-transition period. Affirmative action legislation was enacted with a lag, first targeting employment equity and skills development in …

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 …

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 …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …

in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …

. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …

largely misplaced. By examining broader patterns of institutionalization of occupational gender segregation, the role of cash …