The stubbornly low and declining level of labor force participation rate (LFPR) of Indian women has prompted a great … deal of attention with a focus on factors constraining women's labour supply. Using 12 rounds of a high frequency household … panel survey, we demonstrate volatility in Indian women's labour market engagement, as they exit and (re)enter the labor …

Mainstream literature attributes the decline in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in India between 2004 … period of decline in FLFPR has also been a period of "jobless growth". We show that women have borne the brunt of the … stagnant employment creation from 2004-05 onwards. Our analysis suggests that India needs to focus on creating rural non …

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the … was partly explained by the drastic increases in the school attainment of women, the reduction in fertility and the … show that social norms, attitudes towards women in the society and public policies are important determinants of these …

-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …

partner selection in India. We find that employed women are 14.5% less likely to receive interest from male suitors relative …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre …

Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the …-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs, influencing the general feeling of happiness women experience given their … decision. The trade-offs are especially pronounced in traditional developing countries, where both the pressure for women to …

work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the … GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labour supply. We theoretically explain this … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …

within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income …

ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply … workforce, do employers turn to women to fill in the gap? Do women enter traditionally male occupations and industries, so that … with its historical regional patterns. We find that as the sex ratio declined, female participation increased, women …