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Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...

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Female work status and child nutritional outcome in Nigeria

Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel; Akachi, Yoko - 2017

This paper delves into the relationship between child nutritional outcome and (multiple) female work status in Nigeria from a micro perspective. The child nutritional outcome is proxied by child weight-for-age. Female work includes wage employment outside the household, household on-farm...

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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...

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Maternity benefits mandate and women's choice of work in Viet Nam

Khoa Vu; Glewwe, Paul - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood. This study examines how extending the maternity leave...

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Marriage, work, and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019

opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …

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Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa : a mixed-methods investigation

Schotte, Simone - 2019

This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio economically disadvantaged urban African population. The quantitative analysis using panel data is triangulated with evidence from a qualitative case study integrating focus...

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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries

Behrman, Jere R. - 2019

Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility. This paper focuses on what we know about these possible links in low- and middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of...

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Social mobility in China : a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South

Li, Yaojun - 2020

This study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South. Drawing on national representative surveys collected between 2010 and 2015 in China, the analysis focuses on absolute and...

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Will urbanization raise social mobility in the South, replicating the economic history of the West?

Rains, Emily; Krishna, Anirudh - 2019

As developing countries rapidly urbanize, the number of people living in 'slums'-neighbourhoods lacking property rights and basic services-continues to increase. Whether slum residents will ultimately share in the benefits of the cities they help build or will remain trapped in poverty is not...

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions … and type of work sought. Egyptian migrants predominantly come from rural areas and disadvantaged governorates, and are … less educated, while in Jordan the opposite is the case. Tunisia represents an intermediate case, with migrants slightly …

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