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Closing the Gaps: The Role of Screening Questions and Self-Reporting in Measuring Women’s and Youths’ Employment and Work

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dc.contributor.authorContreras, Ivette
dc.contributor.authorDinarte-Diaz, Lelys
dc.contributor.authorPalacios-Lopez, Amparo
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Valentina
dc.contributor.authorRomero, Steffanny
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-17T13:55:10Z
dc.date.available2024-05-17T13:55:10Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-17
dc.description.abstractCan alternative survey methods address the underreporting of women’s and youths’ labor market outcomes, and thus improve the measurement of the underlying gender- and age-based gaps This paper addresses this question using a survey experiment in El Salvador that compares two alternative survey methods—a list of activities survey module and enforced self-responses—against a traditional household survey, which consists of proxy responses without a list of activities module. The findings show that including the list of activities module yields higher work and employment rates for the average respondent compared to the standard household survey. Notably, when using the list of activities module, the reported work gap between men and women falls by 8.1 percentage points. Moreover, when using enforced self-responses, the male age gaps in employment and work rates fall by 13.9 and 12.3 percentage points, respectively. The paper provides evidence that the prevalence of peers’ informal employment or social norms for domestic obligations drive these results.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099225105162442556/IDU11958474e1ebca149f21b9891f9c2a4db03ed
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10773
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41558
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 10773
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectLABOR GENDER GAPS MEASUREMENT
dc.subjectLABOR AGE GAPS MEASUREMENT
dc.subjectSURVEY METHODS
dc.subjectINFORMALITY
dc.subjectGENDER NORMS
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectSDG 5
dc.subjectDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectSDG 8
dc.titleClosing the Gapsen
dc.title.subtitleThe Role of Screening Questions and Self-Reporting in Measuring Women’s and Youths’ Employment and Worken
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.crossref.titleClosing the Gaps: The Role of Screening Questions and Self-Reporting in Measuring Women’s and Youths’ Employment and Work
okr.date.disclosure2024-05-17
okr.date.lastmodified2024-05-16T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10773
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10773
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okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Applications
okr.topicGender::Gender Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Child Labor
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Work & Working Conditions
okr.unitLiving Standards Measurement (DECLS)
okr.unitDECRG: Human Development (DECHD)
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