This study uses household survey data to analyze the determination of sector of employment and earnings of men and women in a low income, African urban center. Earnings function for men and women are estimated to identify the roles of schooling, experience, and other factors in determining...

In this paper we investigate gender differences in the determinants of several schooling indicators - grade attainment, current enrollment, and withdrawal from school - in a poor urban environment in West Africa, using ordered and binary probit models incorporating household-level random...

This paper analyses part of the controversy over export processing zones (EPZs)-the labour market and gender impacts-using unique time-series labour force survey data from an African setting: urban Madagascar, in which the EPZ (or Zone Franche) grew very rapidly during the 1990s. Employment in...