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Labor Market Participation and Employment Choice in Ghana ; Do Individual Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes Matter?
| العنوان: | Labor Market Participation and Employment Choice in Ghana ; Do Individual Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes Matter? |
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| المؤلفون: | Amankwah, Akuffo, Castaing, Pauline, Owoo, Nkechi S., Palacios-Lopez, Amparo |
| بيانات النشر: | World Bank |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | The World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | EMPLOYMENT OUTCOME, SELF-EMPLOYMENT, GENDER ROLE ATTITUDES, PERSONALITY TRAITS, EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE, INFORMAL SECTOR MEASUREMENT STUDY, MULTI-STAGE SAMPLING, SECONDARY EDUCATION EQUITY, GENDER NORMS, GENDER EQUALITY, SDG 5, DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, SDG 8 |
| الوصف: | In addition to the conventional determinants of labor market participation and the choice between wage employment and self-employment, there is a growing interest in the significance of gender role attitudes and personality traits. This study uses data from the 2022 Ghana Informal Sector Measurement Study to investigate the influence of these factors on employment outcomes in the Northern and Ashanti regions of Ghana. The findings are based on a series of analyses, including descriptive, multinomial logistic, and linear probability model regressions. The empirical results show the critical role played by both gender role attitudes and personality traits in shaping individuals' decisions on labor market participation and employment choices. Notably, personality traits emerge as significant drivers of observed employment outcomes. However, the impact of these personality traits is often mitigated or even reversed in the presence of heightened traditionalism. Furthermore, the gender-disaggregated analysis reveals that possessing at least a secondary education level is a pivotal factor in the selection of men into formal employment, whereas this criterion holds less significance for women. Conversely, once the decision to participate in the labor market has been made, having at least a secondary education becomes relevant for securing wage employment, regardless of an individual's gender. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | report |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf; text/plain |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-9984710-1-3 0-9984710-1-1 |
| Relation: | Policy Research Working Paper; 10664; http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099847101102435095/IDU1b87794181d58c1435d18ef51bf24092eacd1; https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40927 |
| الاتاحة: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099847101102435095/IDU1b87794181d58c1435d18ef51bf24092eacd1 https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40927 |
| Rights: | CC BY 3.0 IGO ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ ; World Bank |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.C586ADE1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9780998471013 0998471011 |
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