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Employment Outcomes along the Rural-Urban Gradation
In an economy that is transforming rapidly, both economically and spatially, the boundaries between rural and urban areas have become blurred. In practice, the rural-urban divide is more accurately characterised as a rural-urban gradation. Labour market outcomes vary along this gradation. Not integrating the gradation in our data and analysis leads to important loss of granularity and can yield misleading conclusions, a point we illustrate with the decline in female labour force participation.
All views expressed in this paper, and any errors, are of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank Group and its affiliated organisations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank Group or their governments.
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