New Insights on Women’s Employment in Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks
Low take-up of job offers and high early turnover continue to affect employment of Ethiopia’s female factory workers. Despite starting factory work around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the women in our sample still left factory employment pri...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/695621645811866333/New-Insights-on-Women-s-Employment-in-Ethiopia-s-Industrial-Parks http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37226 |
| Summary: | Low take-up of job offers and high
early turnover continue to affect employment of Ethiopia’s
female factory workers. Despite starting factory work around
the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the women in our sample
still left factory employment primarily for voluntary
reasons unrelated to COVID-19. This is consistent with early
separation being a longer-term feature of factory
employment. Women who voluntarily left their factory jobs
reported they had received wages close to the minimum of
what they were expecting. Much of the COVID-related
separations we observe are “voluntary”, with women choosing
to leave factory jobs and mainly staying at home due to
personal health concerns. Therefore, while measures to
reinforce input chains and demand for factory orders remain
key, immediate interventions to address workers’ health and
safety concerns are crucial to counter voluntary quitting in
times of a public health crisis. |
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