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 … rural and urban working-age individual population is found to participate in off-farm employment, ranging at the national …-farm employment and continued employment are country- and gender-specific, with demographic factors, occurrence of shocks, and job …

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 poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …

-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … 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 …

on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the … manufacturing and services, with no perceptible effects on self-employment in non-agriculture. The results are consistent with the … alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines …

This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 …-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between …

In Latin America, labor markets have been the main channel through which growth has reduced poverty, with higher labor … income accounting for 49 percent of the reduction in poverty in 2008?13. Understanding labor markets is critical to designing … policies and programs aimed at reducing poverty. With close to 70 percent of the population under age 30 years, labor markets …

employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in lower-income countries. Household enterprises tend to operate with limited … interest or support from governments. This is the case in Mozambique, where neither the poverty reduction strategy nor small … higher household consumption, lower rural poverty, as well as upward mobility, particularly for rural and poorly educated …

manufacturing. Second, the unorganized sector is stubbornly persistent -- it accounted for 81 percent of manufacturing employment in … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in …