This paper considers arguments about Islam and women's welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic …

wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban … 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 …

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 … discrimination. …

groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes. The paper further explores empirical …

This paper examines the relationship between gender, social capital, and access to finance of micro, small, and medium … provide evidence for discrimination against female-owned enterprises in the formal lending market. Specifically, female …. No discrimination in formal credit markets may arise from the preference for informal loans over formal loans - that is …

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 …

gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …

In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw …