With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …

This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender … dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts …

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 …

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 …

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

intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … countries. This paper discusses the measurement of gender attitudes and reviews research findings. Studies reveal that gender …. Mothers' egalitarian views and less-restrictive gender norms promote greater labour force participation for daughters and …

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 …

The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … confront two different approaches. The first one is based on firm data to estimate gender complementarity in production and … to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to …

This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …

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 …