In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw …

related to preference for favourable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …

We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in … toward a negative correlation between female CEO and the relative wages and job satisfaction of female employees. However …

micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique … panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist … primarily in the sales division, while there is a significant gender wage gap in the administrative division. Among loan …

Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change … across the rural-urban gradient. The gender gap increases with connectivity from rural to peri-urban areas, and disappears in … improves their access to off-farm employment. The gender gap persists for married young women independent of connectivity …

identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …

important contributing factors explaining the gender productivity gap are firm characteristics, such as firm size, age of the …

Innovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist. This study used data … from the 2015 Tanzania Firm-Level Skills Survey to investigate the gender innovation gap between female-owned enterprises … innovation when compared to male-owned enterprises. The endowments effect had a positive association with the gender innovation …

explaining earnings gaps between sectors and types of employment. We also investigate other determinants of happiness, such as … income, age, gender, children, ethnicity, marital status, schooling, landlessness, migration, social networks and shocks. Our …

happiness levels across the different social strata are the same, especially among the poor and the neglected. Using data from … the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …