Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market

The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools...

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Main Authors: Arbache, Jorge Saba, Kolev, Alexandre, Filipiak, Ewa
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Language:English
Published: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-25202021-06-14T10:29:10Z Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market Arbache, Jorge Saba Kolev, Alexandre Filipiak, Ewa GENDER DISPARITIES HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IMPROVEMENT OF DATA COLLECTION LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES POLICY DESIGN The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools and methods to existing survey and national account data. The analysis herein is novel in providing in-depth assessments of some of the sources of gender disparities in different labor market outcomes. A part of the book provides results on the basis that data are as comparable as possible for 18 countries. These results were extracted from multi-topic, integrated household surveys conducted in Africa around 2000 and thus may not represent the latest trends, but they have the merit to be comparable. The cross-national perspective provides a benchmark against which other results for individual countries and more recent data presented here may be compared. Additional goals are to demonstrate the possibilities, as well as the challenges, of analysis of gender inequality in labor market outcomes with existing survey data, to support the improvement of data collection, and to stimulate further research on gender disparities in Africa. The book touches on policy issues at various points, although it is not principally a book about using policy to reduce gender inequality. Rather, it aims to provide analysis that is relevant to policy design. 2012-03-19T09:35:34Z 2012-03-19T09:35:34Z 2010 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333038_20101116002315 978-0-8213-8066-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2520 English Africa Development Forum CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Africa
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topic GENDER DISPARITIES
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
IMPROVEMENT OF DATA COLLECTION
LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
POLICY DESIGN
spellingShingle GENDER DISPARITIES
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
IMPROVEMENT OF DATA COLLECTION
LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
POLICY DESIGN
Arbache, Jorge Saba
Kolev, Alexandre
Filipiak, Ewa
Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
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description The main aim of this book is to help fill the gap in current knowledge about the nature, the extent, and some of the root causes of gender disparities in Africa, showing what can be revealed about the application of standard and less standard tools and methods to existing survey and national account data. The analysis herein is novel in providing in-depth assessments of some of the sources of gender disparities in different labor market outcomes. A part of the book provides results on the basis that data are as comparable as possible for 18 countries. These results were extracted from multi-topic, integrated household surveys conducted in Africa around 2000 and thus may not represent the latest trends, but they have the merit to be comparable. The cross-national perspective provides a benchmark against which other results for individual countries and more recent data presented here may be compared. Additional goals are to demonstrate the possibilities, as well as the challenges, of analysis of gender inequality in labor market outcomes with existing survey data, to support the improvement of data collection, and to stimulate further research on gender disparities in Africa. The book touches on policy issues at various points, although it is not principally a book about using policy to reduce gender inequality. Rather, it aims to provide analysis that is relevant to policy design.
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author Arbache, Jorge Saba
Kolev, Alexandre
Filipiak, Ewa
author_facet Arbache, Jorge Saba
Kolev, Alexandre
Filipiak, Ewa
author_sort Arbache, Jorge Saba
title Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
title_short Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
title_full Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
title_fullStr Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
title_full_unstemmed Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market
title_sort gender disparities in africa's labor market
publisher World Bank
publishDate 2012
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