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Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world : evidence from global microdata

Lo Bue, Maria C.; Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2021

precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions. Using a large collection of harmonized household surveys … inequalities in vulnerable employment. Conditional on individual and household characteristics, women are 7 percentage points more … the 1990s, rising levels of female education and rapidly falling fertility have pulled women away from vulnerable …

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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana

Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020

in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the … context of a stagnant manufacturing sector and an oil-based expansion. We show that there was an initial decline in earnings … followed by a substantial increase in earnings inequality in which the skill premium continued to fall at a slower pace and …

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Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Ghana

Boahen, Emmanuel Adu; Opoku, Kwadwo; Schotte, Simone - 2020

This paper provides new evidence on the causal effect of shortening the duration of pre-university education on long-term labour market outcomes in Ghana. We use the education reform of 1987 as a natural experiment, which reduced the years of education prior to university from 17 to 12 years....

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Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector

Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Silver, Jed - 2017

Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute...

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Employment transitions with high unemployment and a small informal sector : examining worker flows during normal and recessionary periods in South Africa

Foster, Shakeba - 2023

This paper examines employment transitions in the South African labour market. Using the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, it analyses flows between the formal sector, informal sector, and unemployment, paying specific attention to how these flows differ during recessions. It explicitly...

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Estimating employment responses to South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive

Budlender, Joshua; Ebrahim, Amina - 2021

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment. We show that attempts to estimate firm-level treatment effects via conditional difference-in-differences are likely to fail when...

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Informal employment or informal firms? : regulatory enforcement and the transformation of the informal sector

Jain, Sanjay - 2021

While there is general agreement that regulatory avoidance is an important part of firms' decisions to produce in the informal sector, there is much less agreement on how regulation and enforcement affect firms' decisions on, inter alia, which sector they locate in, their employment decisions,...

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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021

), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had … premium. Inequality reductions since the 2000s are explained by a fall in earnings in the top percentiles of the distribution …

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Are routine jobs moving south? : evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico

Cortes, Guido Matias; Morris, Diego M. - 2020

The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis provides a unique and new approach to address the...

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Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban Mozambique

Bischler, Jana; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jasper, Paul; … - 2022

employment gender gap over time to the disadvantage of young women. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of our data, we apply two …-driven individual-level fixed-effects LASSO approach. Both analyses reveal that young women face a significant trade-off between work …

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