With the aim of reducing women's greater unpaid care work than men&'s and increasing women's paid employment, this … paper examines the extent to which World Bank investments address unpaid care work. The paper conducts an in-depth gender … analysis of 36 World Bank employment-related projects in Malawi, Mali, Niger, and Rwanda. It concludes that the vast majority …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …

part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …

This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender … dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts …

(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on … the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …

as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and …