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We study the labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, focusing on the factors that help men and women move into an advantageous labour market state from an unfavourable state. We consider 'advantageous' states to be formal salaried employees and self-employed workers...
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employment promotion (involving income generation and small enterprise and co-operative development, public investment for job … employment and expanding social protection during the last 10-15 years, in particular, largely targeting those poor women mostly …
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likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …This paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey-the Integrated Labour Force Survey-and a censored bivariate … probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban …
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employment opportunities for unskilled African labourers. Youth residing in mining settlements, have a large vested interest in … the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging "new mineralizing Africa … school students towards mining as a form of employment and its impact on economic and social life in mining communities are …
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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 significantly to employment despite their relatively low …
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occupations- part-time work, self-employment, and labour informality-needed for family-work balance. Furthermore, countries with …
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informal sector in Tanzania. Primary data were obtained from 11 indepth interviews, 10 focused group discussions, and 236 … employment in the informal sector. …
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sector in Tanzania using interviews and focus group discussions which are supplemented with quantitative survey. Data were … collected in the municipalities of Nyamagana and Ilemela in Mwanza Region, Northern Tanzania, and from officers working with the … government and insurance fund organizations in Dodoma region, central Tanzania, from August to September 2020. The results show …
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Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two … decades. The country is also pursuing an ambitious development plan with significant employment objectives. For development to … be fully inclusive, specific attention must be paid to the gendered dimensions of employment policy, in terms of both …
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from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises …
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