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

fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality … outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the …

This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … inequalities in vulnerable employment. Conditional on individual and household characteristics, women are 7 percentage points more … likely to be in vulnerable employment than men. The experiences of marriage and parenthood are important drivers of this …

services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and …

Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship …

countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …