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Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes (English)

Better understanding the geography of women’s labor market outcomes within countries is important to inform targeted efforts to increase women’s economic empowerment. This paper assesses the extent to which a method that combines simulated survey data from urban areas in Mexico with broadly available geospatial indicators from Google Earth Engine and OpenStreetMap can significantly improve estimates of labor force participation and unemployment rates...
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Merfeld,Joshua David; Newhouse,David Locke; Weber,Michael; Lahiri,Partha.

Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10077 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099321406092229138

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