Gender Inequality in Employment in Mozambique
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Gender Inequality in Employment in Mozambique. / Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn.
In: South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 87, No. 2, 29.04.2019, p. 180-199.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Gender Inequality in Employment in Mozambique
AU - Gradín, Carlos
AU - Tarp, Finn
PY - 2019/4/29
Y1 - 2019/4/29
N2 - We investigate the gender employment gap in the expanding non‐subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has widened over time and we identify two structural factors strongly associated with it. One factor is the still relatively lower level of female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at expanding women´s education and facilitating the access of married women to the emerging labour market as the most effective ways of achieving a more inclusive growth path that does not leave women behind.
AB - We investigate the gender employment gap in the expanding non‐subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has widened over time and we identify two structural factors strongly associated with it. One factor is the still relatively lower level of female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at expanding women´s education and facilitating the access of married women to the emerging labour market as the most effective ways of achieving a more inclusive growth path that does not leave women behind.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Gender
KW - employment
KW - education
KW - Mozambique
U2 - 10.1111/saje.12220
DO - 10.1111/saje.12220
M3 - Journal article
VL - 87
SP - 180
EP - 199
JO - South African Journal of Economics
JF - South African Journal of Economics
SN - 0038-2280
IS - 2
ER -
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