Gender differences in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania

Kwadwo Opoku, Francisco M.P. Mugizi and Emmanuel Adu Boahen ()

No wp-2021-99, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper uses the latest Tanzania labour force survey—the Integrated Labour Force Survey—and a censored bivariate probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men, women are less likely to participate in the labour market and less likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania.

Keywords: Labour force participation; Formal; Regression analysis; Gender; Discrimination; Tanzania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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