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Chinen, Marjorie; Hoop, Thomas; Balarin, María; Alcázar, Lorena – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2016
A recent International Labour Organization (ILO) report has documented the limited opportunities for women in the labour market (ILO, 2016). The report shows that women face higher unemployment and underemployment than men, are more often employed in the informal labour market and in family enterprises, and are overrepresented in lower skill…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Skilled Occupations
Vollmer, Sebastian; Khan, Sarah; Tu, Le Thi Ngoc; Pasha, Atika; Sahoo, Soham – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2017
While numerous facts and figures point towards the increasing opportunities for women and their growing participation in economic, political and public decision-making processes, women remain in disadvantaged positions compared to men in many places of the world (World Economic Forum, 2015). Gender bias is deeply embedded in cultures, economies,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Empowerment, Child Health
Pantelopoulos, George – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
The objective of this study was to explore and empirically investigate the relationship between the labour force across educational levels and foreign direct investment (FDI), and to facilitate comparisons of education statistics and indicators across countries based on uniform and internationally agreed definitions. The analysis focuses on OECD…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Force, Investment, Educational Indicators
Maheshwari, Greeni – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature on women's leadership in higher education in the last 20 years. This literature review employed a systematic review of 64 articles published worldwide with 28 articles specifically published in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. The…
Descriptors: Barriers, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
Mullan, Joel; Rolleston, Caine – International Journal of Training Research, 2020
India's informal economy accounts for more than half the country's GDP but is characterised by low levels of skills, and considerable barriers to skills development for workers. The Government of India has implemented ambitious policy initiatives for upskilling, designed to catalyse 'formalisation' of the economy, and improve productivity.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Skill Development, Vocational Education, Educational Quality
Rosemberg, Fulvia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
This article intends to show that contemporary proposals for early child-care and education (ECCE), typical of the modern process of neo-liberal policies, have been familiar to developing countries since the 1960s. Their heralds continue to announce the same news; they have just changed their clothes. These heralds are the international…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Ideology, Gender Differences, Social Bias
Jutting, Johannes P.; Morrisson, Christian; Dayton-Johnson, Jeff; Drechsler, Denis – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
Efforts to establish, test and analyse hypotheses regarding cross-country variations in women's economic status are hampered by the lack of a readily accessible and easily used information resource on the various dimensions of gender inequality. Addressing this gap, this paper introduces the Gender, Institutions and Development data base (GID)…
Descriptors: Databases, Sex Fairness, Economic Status, Females
Jacob, Sunday – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Education is a right for all children. Discriminating against either the boys or the girls has serious consequences for future national development. In Nigeria, there are alarming figures showing a large percentage of boys and girls of school age not attending formal education. The focus for this paper therefore is on the girl child bearing in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Out of School Youth, Females, Womens Education
Jutting, Johannes; Morrisson, Christian – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
While the overall picture for gender equality is still gloomy, recent changes in family institutions in some countries provide an enlightening example. Developing countries are starting to reform cultural barriers to gender equality that limit their growth prospects. Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and some states of India are some examples of countries…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Gender Discrimination
Tripney, Janice; Hombrados, Jorge; Newman, Mark; Hovish, Kimberly; Brown, Chris; Steinka-Fry, Katarzyna; Wilkey, Eric – Campbell Collaboration, 2013
Background: The increase of low-income, low-skilled youth in the labour market, particularly in developing countries, is a major concern internationally. In some regions of the world, young people are nearly three times as likely as adults to be unemployed. They are also more likely to work in the informal labour market than adults, in low quality…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Vocational Education, Intervention, Employment Potential
1995
This proceedings contains papers and recommendations focusing on the international migration of women. Growing numbers of women are opting for international migration as a means of improving life chances. This proceedings addresses some of the issues resulting from such migration. The book, divided into four parts, includes an introduction by the…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Females
Mukherjee, Diganta; Das, Saswati – Social Indicators Research, 2008
This paper uses household level data from National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) of India, the 55th (1999-2000) and the 61st (2004-05) rounds, to show that even with a significant wage incentive for schooling of urban children, the school drop out rate and child labour incidence are not small over this period. The parents' level of education…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Incidence, Child Labor, Foreign Countries
Dyer, Caroline – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
The Republic of Yemen has a very high number of working children, employed in a variety of occupations, ranging from street vending to guards on farms, and domestic labour. Including these children in formal education is a major challenge facing the Republic, which has one of the lowest rates of female participation in primary education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Poverty, Child Labor
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Anker, Richard – International Labour Review, 1983
This article discusses the difficulties involved in obtaining accurate labor force data for Third World women, from the point of view of interviewers, respondents, and labor statisticians or economists. Suggestions are then made regarding alternative definitions of the labor force and survey questionnaire structures in order to overcome some of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Employed Women
Leigh-Doyle, Sue – 1992
In 1988, the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization established a pilot project to address the issue of underrepresentation of women in technical education and training. The Women in Technical Education and Training Project (WITED) was based on six key strategic…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Rate