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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Labour force participation"”.
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Female labour force participation and economic growth in South Africa
… business levels. However, by global norms female labour force participation stays low and it is lower than for men averaging to a gap. Women’s work remains characterised by domestic and cultural divisions. This study establishes the long-run relationship between female labour force participation …
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Determinants of female labour force participation in Zambia: a micro data analysis.
… many factors that influence females to enter the labour market. Women in most of the developing countries are underrepresented in the labour force. In this regard, the equity and efficiency related Sustainable Development Goals, in particular; ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and …
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Determinants of female labour force participation in Zambia: a micro data analysis.
… many factors that influence females to enter the labour market. Women in most of the developing countries are underrepresented in the labour force. In this regard, the equity and efficiency related Sustainable Development Goals, in particular; ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and …
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Female labour force participation amidst the reestablishment of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan 2021-2023
… experienced a significant decline in female labour force participation (FLFP) from 17% in 2021 to 6% in 2022, concurrently with re-establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) in August 2021. Thus, this study aims to investigate the factors that could have contributed to this …
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Labour force participation among African female migrants in South Africa: the case of Gauteng province
… the South African context, the influence of the labour force participation among African female migrants in Gauteng province, is one such case. African female migrants frequently migrate to South Africa’s Gauteng province in search of better opportunities. Many are forced to migrate due to a lack …
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An Econometric Analysis of Disability and Labour Force Participation in Ireland The Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity and Measurement Error
… estimates of the impact of disability on labour force participation in Ireland. Given the current focus on disability policy, this research is both necessary and timely for policymakers. In estimating the effect of disability on labour force participation, we are faced with many secondary …
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An analysis of the relationship between health and the labour market in South Africa
The relationship between health and labour market outcomes is of academic and policy interest due to the essential role the labour market plays in engendering economic growth. It is in this regard that this thesis is both timely and essential especially in light of scant literature on the …
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Non-communicable diseases and economic outcomes in South Africa: a cohort study for the period of 2008-2018
… such as South Africa. NCDs negatively impact the labour market by decreasing labour productivity, increasing employee turnover and early retraction from the labour market. This further decreases individual and household income especially for the urban poor who carry the heaviest non-communicable …
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An economic analysis of declining marriages in post-apartheid South Africa, 1995-2006
… the 2000 to 2006 September wave of the biannual Labour Force Surveys. Using the pseudo panel, we make use of the Age-Period-Cohort Model to disentangle marriage trends into age, period, and cohort effects in order to establish whether the change in marital patterns observed in post-apartheid …
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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes
… disability type and disability grants on labour force participation, employment and wages using NIDS data from Wave 1 to Wave 4. Data was analysed as a panel to account for the effects over time. A pooled OLS, a random effects and a fixed effects model were applied on the panel dataset to …
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The added worker effect in South Africa
The theory that married women’s labour supply increases in response to their partners job loss is known as the added worker effect (addWE). This paper investigates how married women’s labour force participation, probability of employment and average working hours respond to the recently …
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A small push goes a long way: An evaluation of the cumulative effects of a cash transfer on South African youth
… measured by height), and two current outcomes (labour force participation and mental health), using a youth sample aged between fifteen and twenty-seven. Those experiencing a higher duration of CSG receipt display higher educational achievement, higher average height and lower labour force …
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Topics in Canadian Aboriginal Earnings, Employment and Education: An Empirical Analysis
… wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples in the Canadian labour market. Specifically, using data from the master file of the Canadian census for the years 1996, 2001 and 2006, the first section examines the wage differential for various Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups, including a comparison of those …
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Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle
… s to analyse the trends and patterns of female labour force participation based on the 1960, 1970 and 1975 censuses . The main analysis utilises the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose first …
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Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle
… s to analyse the trends and patterns of female labour force participation based on the 1960, 1970 and 1975 censuses . The main analysis utilises the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose first …
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Exploring the status of African Women in the South African Labour Market 1995-2004
… measures to improve the status of women in the labour market. For example, new legal provisions were enacted while international laws were also embraced. This demonstrated the government's commitment to achieve equality between men and women in the labour market and society at large. Given that …
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The Economic Impacts of Migrant Maids in Malaysia
… married women choose to participate in the workforce. Simple comparisons of households with maids and those without suggest that hiring maids raises female labour force participation rates of their employers by 26 percentage points. But such comparisons are not of like with like because …
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The impact of family-friendly policies and practices on working mothers and pregnant women
… of the workplace reflects the increased labour force participation of women, including those who are married or have children. Women are also taking less time out of the workforce for childbirth – indicating that increasing numbers of organisations contain women that are either pregnant …
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The economic impact of childhood developmental language disorder
… non-cognitive skills. In the third study, the labour force decisions of families with a child with DLD are explored by measuring the indirect costs associated with reduced maternal labour force participation. This study highlights that the impact of language difficulties on labour force …
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