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Heterogeneous impact of internet availability on female labour market outcomes in an emerging economy : evidence from Indonesia

Kusumawardhani, Niken; Pramana, Rezanti; Saputri, … - 2021

internet availability on women's labour market outcomes in Indonesia. As each worker subgroup tends to respond differently to … changes in technology, examining the heterogeneity in the impact of internet availability on female labour market outcomes is … internet availability has only a small significant effect on the female labour force participation rate and no statistically …

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Gender identity and female labour supply in Brazil

Codazzi, Karen; Pero, Valéria; Sant'Anna, André - 2017

Over the last half-century, the role of women in society has changed substantially. However, the gender income gap and the difference in labour force participation persist. Akerlof and Kranton introduce the concept of identity from sociology and social psychology at the economic analysis; based...

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Labour turnover and workers' well-being in the Ethiopian manufacturing industry

Halvorsen, Sandra Kristine - 2021

Manufacturing industry expansion is a central part of Ethiopia's growth and transformation agenda due to its potential for accelerated economic development and large-scale job creation, in particular for women. However, the industry is experiencing extremely high labour turnover rates, which is...

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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam

Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam's 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the...

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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...

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Social norms as a barrier to women's employment in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2019

This paper discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms differ substantially across...

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Motherhood and flexible jobs : evidence from Latin American countries

Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021

We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...

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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal

Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017

In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...

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Ban on female migrant workers : skills-differentiated evidence from Sri Lanka

Weeraratne, Bilesha - 2021

This study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-indifference model. The Family Background Report policy has resulted in decreasing departures among lower-skilled...

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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India

Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020

Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...

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