between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the … through which non-farm employment might improve the welfare of rural households. Although participation in non-farm activities …, controlling for time varying differences in local market conditions and employment opportunities. The results suggest that non …

design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and …Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work …

research questions for the future. The objective is to develop a gender-informed policy and research agenda on youth employment … employed women work in vulnerable employment. In addition, youth unemployment rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are double those of … barriers that youth face in accessing employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the ways in which young women's employment is …

-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …Off-farm income constitutes a significant share of the household livelihood portfolios across Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet …

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to … paper constructs a measure of the proportion of each country's population whose native language is a gender language. At the … cross-country level, this paper documents a robust negative relationship between the prevalence of gender languages and …

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …

expectations of future employment and induce changes in household structure that can exert an independent effect on the private … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …