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 …

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 … more exposed to trade liberalization experienced reductions in their employment levels, especially in female employment. We …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-indifference model. The Family Background Report policy has resulted … is consistent with the literature on Family Background Report-related corruption and mis-reporting of skills to avoid the …, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by …-farm employment for women living in a joint family. …

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 …