Gender Differences in Rural Off-farm Employment Participation in Tanzania: Is Spatial Mobility an Issue?

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dc.contributor.authorMduma, John K.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-19T13:00:31Z
dc.date.available2016-07-19T13:00:31Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates gender differences in spatial mobility with respect to participation in off-farm employment in rural Tanzania. The mobility issue arises because the recent increase in women participation in off-farm employment is likely to saturate the local labor market/off-farm opportunities and dampen the rural wages/profit among women if it is not accompanied by increased geographical mobility. The results show that, despite the recent increase in their participation, women do not have significant geographical mobility, thus tends to operate more locally as compared to men. The results of decompositions of gender differences in participation in off-farm employment show that a substantial portion of the gender differences is not explained by individuals' endowments. However, policy interventions that could narrow the education gap between male and female are likely to narrow the existing gender gap. Likewise, policies that increases access to water (reduce time needed to collects water) have the potential of reducing the observed gender differences. Since geographical mobility among women is likely to be dictated by cultural factors that tend to have policy inertia, in the short run, there is need to create diversified off-farm opportunities for women within the rural areas in order to reduce unnecessary competition among them.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMduma, J.K., 2014. Gender Differences in Rural Off-farm Employment Participation in Tanzania: Is Spatial Mobility an Issue?. African Journal of Economic Review, 2(1), pp.3-24.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3263
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectOff-farm employmenten_US
dc.subjectGeographical mobilityen_US
dc.subjectRural areasen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleGender Differences in Rural Off-farm Employment Participation in Tanzania: Is Spatial Mobility an Issue?en_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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