@article{Ahaibwe:276622,
      recid = {276622},
      author = {Ahaibwe, Gemma   and Ssewanyana,Sarah  and Kasirye,  Ibrahim},
      title = {Early labour market transitions of young women in Uganda},
      address = {2018-06-29},
      number = {674-2018-5535},
      series = {44},
      pages = {40},
      month = {Jun},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {Poor educational attainment, early marriages, low age at  first birth and poor labour market outcomes continue to be  of concern for young women in Uganda. Using the School to  Work Transition Surveys (SWTS 2013 and 2015) and the  Demographic and Health Surveys (2006 and 2011) for Uganda,  this paper descriptively explores links between educational  attainment, age of marriage and child-birth and labour  market outcomes for young people (15-24 years of age).  Overall, we find that young women leave school early (one  in every two girls drops out before completion of the  education cycle), give birth and/or get married before the  legal age of 18 years (median age at marriage and first  birth is 16.7 and 17.4 respectively), and a good number -18  percent are inactive (neither participating in the labour  market nor attending school). Specifically, the results  provided evidence on the critical role of education in  transiting to stable/satisfactory employment; compared with  those who leave school prematurely; young people who enter  the labour market with more education are more likely  transition to stable employment. Additional evidence shows  that women (25-49 years) whose first birth/marriage was  before the age of 20 are less likely to be in professional  /technical and managerial occupations and more likely to be  engaged in agriculture with less (if any) income accruing  to them. This partly confirms the hypothesis that early  labour market entry limits young people from accumulating  the human capital necessary to get good jobs; and often  confines them to less productive and vulnerable jobs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/276622},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.276622},
}