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Education, Access to Better Quality Work and Gender: Lessons from the Kagera Panel Data Set

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  • Adalbertus Kamanzi
  • Andy McKay
  • Andy Newell
  • Cinzia Rienzo
  • Wiktoria Tafesse

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For many decades the worldwide expansion of supply and demand for skilled work has been at the heart of economic growth and development. In this paper, we use the 1991–2010 panel data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey in North West Tanzania to examine the work outcomes at the end of the panel of those who were young (7 to 24 years) in the baseline. First, we illustrate the significant extent to which advanced education and skilled work go hand in hand. We analyse specifically the baseline household factors enabling individuals to access more advanced education, and we find quite different results by gender. We then analyse, again by gender, how this education plus baseline characteristics matter for attaining skilled or professional work. We also study the importance of migration in the process and the degree of intergenerational mobility in skilled work. The results show vividly how some key household factors help young men advance in their education and career, while childcare in particular retards the progress young women can make.

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  • Adalbertus Kamanzi & Andy McKay & Andy Newell & Cinzia Rienzo & Wiktoria Tafesse, 2021. "Education, Access to Better Quality Work and Gender: Lessons from the Kagera Panel Data Set," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 30(1), pages 103-127.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:30:y:2021:i:1:p:103-127.
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    Keywords

    education; work; youth; migration; Kagera; Tanzania; JEL classification: I25; J16; J21; 015;
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    JEL classification:

    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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