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Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

Sarra, Ben Yahmed - 2018

We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and non-tradable sectors. Using Mexican...

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Not all that it seems : narrowing of gender gaps in employment during the onset of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Halim, Daniel; Hambali, Sean; Purnamasari, Ririn Salwa - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 5-38

This paper studies the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on Indonesia's labor market, using the exogenous timing of the pandemic in a seasonal difference-in-differences framework. We use multiple rounds of Indonesia's National Labor Force Survey to establish a pre-pandemic employment trend and...

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Teen fertility and labor market segmentation : evidence from Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; David Sahn, E.; Villa, Kira M. - 2016

Women represent the majority of informal sector workers in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the likelihood that a woman will be employed in the...

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The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality

Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2020

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...

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Home bounded - global outreach : home-based workers in Turkey

Dedeoğlu, Saniye - 2020

This report focuses on two categories of home-based workers in Turkey; industrial home-based pieceworkers and IT-enabled remote workers, who are commonly referred to in Turkey as “freelancers”. With an aim of exploring the current patterns and issues of these two categories of home-based...

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Legal Regulation of Informal Employment in Tanzania : The Need for Decent Work

Mollel, Godfrey - 2023

The main purpose of this study is to investigate legal and policy gaps in regulating informal employment in Tanzania in … on the idea that informal employment in Tanzania is not regulated; consequently informal workers are experiencing a … security coverage. This is happening while Tanzania is committed to different documents to ensure decent work for all workers …

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