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Gender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience

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dc.contributor.authorHardy, Morgan
dc.contributor.authorLitzow, Erin
dc.contributor.authorMcCasland, Jamie
dc.contributor.authorKagy, Gisella
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-29T17:56:17Z
dc.date.available2024-03-29T17:56:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-26
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports on the universe of garment-making-firm owners in a Ghanaian district capital during the COVID-19 crisis. By July 2020, 80 percent of both male- and female-owned firms were operational. However, pre-pandemic data show that selection into persistent closure differs by gender. Consistent with a cleansing effect of recessions and highlighting the presence of marginal female entrepreneurs, female-owned firms that remain closed past the spring lockdown are negatively selected on pre-pandemic sales. The pre-pandemic sales distributions of female survivors and non-survivors are significantly different from each other. Female owners of non-operational firms exit to non-employment and experience large decreases in overall earnings. In contrast, persistently closed male-owned firms are not selected on pre-pandemic firm characteristics. Instead, male non survivors are 36 percentage points more likely than male survivors to have another income-generating activity prior to the crisis. Male owners of persistently closed firms fully compensate for revenue losses in their core businesses with earnings from these alternative income-generating activities. Taken together, the evidence is most consistent with differential underlying occupational choice fundamentals for self-employed men and women in this context.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099742009132324437/IDU0a21e7942070b10444c0bc3309268969a958b
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41331
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41331
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectINFORMALITY
dc.subjectFIRMS
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.titleGender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilienceen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleGender Differences in Informal Labor-Market Resilience
okr.date.disclosure2024-03-29
okr.date.lastmodified2023-09-13T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhac028
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41331
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
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okr.topicGender::Gender and Economics
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Management and Relations
okr.unitGender Impact Evaluation (AFEGI)
okr.volume37 (1)
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