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This paper assesses whether the growth of informal construction employment and activities in Tanzania are a boon or … bane for informal workers. It examines the importance of employment and income provision, employment conditions, and … employment and income to people, although a significant number of employees work without contracts and pensions. The level of …
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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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likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …This paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey-the Integrated Labour Force Survey-and a censored bivariate … probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban …
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This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to … avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 … adult employment. We estimate fixed effects linear probability models. We find that child labor is associated with …
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This paper examines the role of search and information frictions on wage dispersion. Job search costs are high in rural labor markets in developing countries. The flow of information on jobs and wages is limited, and wages tend to be dispersed. To lower search costs, I develop an SMS-based...
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sector in Tanzania using interviews and focus group discussions which are supplemented with quantitative survey. Data were … collected in the municipalities of Nyamagana and Ilemela in Mwanza Region, Northern Tanzania, and from officers working with the … government and insurance fund organizations in Dodoma region, central Tanzania, from August to September 2020. The results show …
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