Sustainable development: Does improvement in education and health of women improve female labour force participation rate?

OA Osundina - Sustainable Development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The sustainable development goals are a call to action to protect the planet and guarantee
peace and prosperity for all people. Since inception, the sustainable development goals …

Gender of the family head and food insecurity in urban and rural Nigeria

ID Nwaka, SS Akadiri, KE Uma - African Journal of Economic and …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Are the urban and rural male-headed households (MHHs) or female-headed
households (FHHs) poorer and food (in) secured? Such question is of very important policy …

Analysis of gender wage gap and the Nigerian labour market: a new empirical evidence

A Orji, EO Nwosu - International Journal of Manpower, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study investigated the gender wage gap in Nigeria by analysing two waves of
household surveys (in 2003–2004 and 2018–2019) in order to understand the dynamics or …

Gender pay gap in the workplace: the case of public and private sectors in Nigeria

T Aderemi, I Alley - Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2019 - Springer
The need to reduce the gender pay gap is an ongoing concern in developing countries. One
aspect of gender inequality that is often neglected is the gender pay differential in the public …

Gender-based segregation in education, jobs and earnings in South Africa

G Roberts, V Schöer - World Development Perspectives, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates gender-based segregation in education, jobs and earnings among
African women in South Africa. By investigating these linkages, we aim to identify potential …

Participation and returns from informal service-oriented non-farm enterprises: Evidence from a survey of Nigerian households

ID Nwaka, OL Emeagwali - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We investigate the factors that influence the selection and productivity of informal service-
oriented family enterprises in Nigeria. Using nationally representative micro-data from the …

Education and labor market activity of women: The case of Botswana

G Khanie - Journal of Labor and Society, 2019 - brill.com
This study examines the role played by education in female labor market participation in
Botswana. Using the 2015/2016 Botswana Multi-Topic Household Survey data and a …

Sectoral Wage Differentials in Bangladesh: A Comparison Between the Government and Other Ownerships

MA Rahman, WY Kim - International Economic Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Most of the studies of wage discrimination in Bangladesh have calculated the gap between
pairs of sectors, while this study uses multiple sectors using multinomial logit estimation …

Pilihan pekerjaan penduduk lanjut usia pada sebelum dan saat pandemi Covid-19

HM Aqil, AJ Pitoyo - Jurnal Kependudukan Indonesia, 2023 - ejournal.brin.go.id
As Indonesia will experience population aging in 2023, one way to deal with the impacts of
this population phenomenon is by encouraging older people to become potential in the …

Dynamic Entrepreneurial or Subsistence Self-employed? Self-employment among Urban and Rural Nigerian Workers

ID Nwaka, KE Uma - Entrepreneurship for Social Change, 2021 - emerald.com
Controversy in the literature exists over whether self-employment is driven by worker's
deliberate entrepreneurial choices (pull factors) or an indeliberate subsistence employment …