This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset … of hiring a domestic worker is significantly higher for larger households, female headed households, larger dwellings … where households located outside the capital city are less likely to retain a domestic worker. These insights can be …

This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed …, the absence of labor law for domestic workers, and the laissez faire approach of the labor-receiving government. These … sources of asymmetric information create serious market vulnerabilities for the domestic worker population, often resulting in …

, the net hourly wage paid to the domestic employee, the household preferences for consumption of in-home services and the … uses the fact that some households are observed to consume domestic services and to take advantage of the tax reduction …

European countries have increasingly adopted wage subsidies for the sector of domestic services to reduce low … estimate how participation in the subsidized domestic services sector impacts the labour market outcomes of program … by increasing employment within the subsidized domestic services sector. We also find that program participation …

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally … the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of academic scholarship on domestic work in the GCC and beyond, little … attention has been paid to absconding foreign domestic workers and the complex role abuse plays in determining their future …