This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, the authors use employment data from about one hundred … censuses and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …

, and the concepts of housework and employment are taken as mutually exclusive. Second, given this duality between housework … and employment, women define "employment" based on a set of necessary characteristics that exclude many of their own …

restrictions from discriminatory behaviors and female employment is particularly strong in the manufacturing sector …

-term positive impacts on self-employment and skills match, while positive but uncertain effects emerge for employment and earnings … training days attended). These positive impacts, however, do not lead to higher employment or greater earnings …

markedly by job type. Survey participants report significantly more self-employment spells when the reference period is shorter … than the traditional one week, with the impacts concentrated among those in home-based and mobile self-employment. In … contrast, there is no impact of the reference period on the incidence of wage employment. The wage employed report working …

impact of corruption on employment growth among private firms. Using firm-level survey data for 109 countries, the analysis … finds that corruption has a much larger negative impact on employment growth for firms that are financially constrained … the bribery rate brings about a decline in the annual growth rate of employment of financially constrained firms that is 2 …

identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment …

increase their productivity ("better employment"). The UHCIs generalize the growth-based interpretation of the HCI: the inverse … employment rates …