With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …

, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …

Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is … needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … ambiguous. Maternal employment, through mothers' exposure to wider social networks and greater bargaining may also be associated …

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 …

's labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …