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Improving young women's working conditions in Tanzania's urban food vending sector
Mhando, Nandera Ernest; Mramba, Nasibu Rajabu - 2021
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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Towards sustainable livelihoods in the Tanzanian informal economy : facilitating inclusion, organization, and rights for street vendors
Steiler, Ilona; Nyirenda, Chediel - 2021
In spite of having some intensive national strategies to address poverty, Tanzania lacks a coherent national strategy …
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Trade and women
Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla - 2022
challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to … increasingly expand social protection for informal workers. This paper examines the case of Tanzania by exploring the policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341472
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Job quality and labour market transitions : evidence from Mexican informal and formal workers
Conover, Emily; Khamis, Melanie; Pearlman, Sarah - 2021
In this paper we analyse informal work in Mexico, which accounts for the majority of employment in the country and has grown over time. We document that the informal sector is composed of two distinct parts: salaried informal employment and self-employment. Relative to self-employment and formal...
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Gender, informal employment and trade liberalization in Mexico
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Bombarda, Pamela - 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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The gender productivity gap : evidence from the Indian informal sector
Gang, Ira N.; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2021
We examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal enterprises in India. Female-owned firms are on average 45 per cent less productive than male-owned firms, with the clearest productivity gaps observed at the lower end of the...
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Formal but less equal : gender wage gaps in formal and informal jobs in Brazil
Ben Yahmed, Sarra - 2016
In developing countries, a large share of employees work informally and are not covered by employment protection legislation. I study here how gender wage inequality differs across formal and informal jobs in Brazil. The raw gender wage gap is higher in informal jobs (13%) compared to formal...
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Gender gaps in labor informality : the motherhood effect
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2019
Recent work has quantified the large negative effects of motherhood on female labor market outcomes in Europe and the US. But these results may not apply to developing countries, where labor markets work differently and informality is widespread. In less developed countries, informal jobs, which...
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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...
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