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This study aims to understand women's engagement in economic activities in rural Honduras and why these activities may …. Simulations suggest that the rural female labor force participation rate in Honduras is likely to be underestimated by 6 to 23 …, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework …
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This study analyzes labor market performance in the Philippines from the perspective of workers' welfare. It argues … of in-work poverty - low education of the poor, and the scarcity of productive job opportunities. The labor market is …, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment …
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level … challenges and offers policy recommendations to ensure inclusivity in education for children with disabilities …
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This paper constructs and estimates a household-level search model to analyze Roma spouses' utility maximization for leisure, home production, and work. The paper aims to explain labor market gender gaps in a marginalized Roma population with low labor market participation rates (males 53...
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-farm. Similarly, fathers' likelihood of working off-farm and having a second occupation increase as a consequence of further …
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with higher education and those with lower levels of education living in different parts of the city (and from different …
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Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …
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This paper presents a new dataset of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more … dataset is illustrated by conducting a rigorous assessment of employment characteristics, of changes in employment over time …, and of the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and employment growth in South Asia. The exercise …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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