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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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Can Working Conditions Affect Income Earned by the Women Working in Urban Informal Sector? : An Empirical Analysis From India
Gupta, Apoorva - 2023
The standard Mincerian Wage equation depicts that education the person is having and occupation the person is doing are the important determinants of income earned. This paper goes a step further to argue that the working conditions that women face or enjoy at their workplace can be an important...
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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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Gender, Geography, and Rural Justice
Pruitt, Lisa R. - 2009
This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...
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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 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855338
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Not all that it seems : narrowing of gender gaps in employment during the onset of COVID-19 in Indonesia
Halim, Daniel; Hambali, Sean; Purnamasari, Ririn Salwa - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 40 (2023) 2, pp. 5-38
This paper studies the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on Indonesia's labor market, using the exogenous timing of the pandemic in a seasonal difference-in-differences framework. We use multiple rounds of Indonesia's National Labor Force Survey to establish a pre-pandemic employment trend and...
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Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico
Sarra, Ben Yahmed - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917512