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probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania … wage employment probability differential suggests that the possibility of gender discrimination against women in urban …
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This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that...
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In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey … microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households … make use of the rich information from the household survey to investigate the underlying pathways …
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This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to … adult employment. We estimate fixed effects linear probability models. We find that child labor is associated with … vulnerable employment in adulthood. Negative adult employment effects arise when children who are younger than 11-12 work more …
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Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire modules vary across countries and within countries over time along several dimensions,...
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variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in low-income countries. Little is known whether … without screening questions on employment generates lower female labor force participation and lower rates of wage employment … female working hours, and lower employment in agriculture for men. The differences between proxy and self reporting seem to …
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participation rates, while rising household incomes contributed negatively in relatively poorer countries, suggesting that a …
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that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to engage in employment outside the household and more likely to …This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in … engage in household chores relative to men. This is probably the result of the environmental degradation that accompanied the …
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-agricultural wage employment is clearly beneficial, irrespective of gender, and has had relatively high growth. Non-agricultural self-employment … from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household …. Increasing diversification is associated with higher welfare, but there are differences by gender and activity type. Non …
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social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania with a gender lens, to better understand the contributions of these … policy, social protection, and employment policy, and the level, reach, and quality of government social policy delivery to … advancements in the legal frameworks and increasingly gender-responsive government policy plans, Tanzanian social policy delivery …
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