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doi
10.1596/978-0-8213-8066-6
handle
10986/2520

Gender Disparities in Africa's Labor Market

Flag for IGO World Bank on March 19th 2012
Arbache, Jorge Saba, Kolev, Alexandre and Filipiak, Ewa
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 inequ...

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Related SDGs

SDG 5: Gender Equality ...
SDG 5: Gender Equality

Target 5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth ...
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Target 8.5

Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

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Alexandre Kolev at International Labour Organization
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Alexandre Kolev at International Labour Organization
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Ronald L. Oaxaca at Institute for the Study of Labor
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Pablo Suárez Robles at International Labour Organization
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