This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender … dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts …

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 … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

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

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

-intensive employment opportunities through microfinance, export garment manufacturing, and community-based services, the majority of … that while women's capital endowments spell out the employment possibilities available to women, these intersect with …

In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw … employment gender gap over time to the disadvantage of young women. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of our data, we apply two …

The wage of an individual is observed only when he/she is employed. However, getting employment requires two decisions … influenced by gender, it is appropriate to account for this double selection process. This study uses the latest household survey … in Ghana to estimate gender wage gaps by correcting for this double selection process. We find that the average total …

With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …