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 …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …

This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is … contracts' implications for gender equality, both across and within households. We look both at the participation of female …

employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …

identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …

paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … address unpaid care work. Doing so would improve economic and human development and reduce gender inequality. …

simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in … schooling in Lesotho and suggests that impacts on child welfare are influenced by time and labour constraints and by gender …

important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …