The Labor Market, Education and Armed Conflict in Tajikistan
Shortly following its independence in 1991, Tajikistan suffered a violent civil war. This study explores the effect of this conflict on education and labor market outcomes for men and women. The results are based on the data from the 2003 and 2007...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110726110103 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3500 |
| Summary: | Shortly following its independence in
1991, Tajikistan suffered a violent civil war. This study
explores the effect of this conflict on education and labor
market outcomes for men and women. The results are based on
the data from the 2003 and 2007 Tajik Living Standards
Measurement Surveys that were separated from the 1992-1998
Tajik civil war by five and nine years, respectively. The
regression analysis that controls for the cohort and
regional-level exposure points toward a persistent and
lasting gap in the educational attainment by women who were
of school age during the war and lived in the more
conflict-affected regions as compared with women the same
age who lived in the lesser affected regions and also to the
older generation. These empirical results support the
anecdotal and observational evidence about the decline in
female educational attainment in Tajikistan. Interestingly,
this group of young women is more likely to hold a job as
compared with the rest of the analytical sample. Conditional
on being employed, men and women in the more
conflict-affected areas do not receive wages that are
significantly different from wages received by men and women
in the lesser affected areas. |
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