Showing 1 - 10 of 2,770
(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305910
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152827
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229134
Cameroon is an example of a developing country where the transition from agriculture to services has defied standard … the tertiary sector affect women's employment. Decomposition analysis based on 461 Cameroonian firms indicates a 6.2 per … cent feminization pattern over the past decade, primarily driven by increased female employment in wholesale and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336012
We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358648
participation rates, while rising household incomes contributed negatively in relatively poorer countries, suggesting that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
level of economic development. At the same time, structural transformation in other countries, including those in the region … of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810116
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011755498
participation rates, while rising household incomes contributed negatively in relatively poorer countries, suggesting that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129949