This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female … employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, the authors use employment data from about one hundred … censuses and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to compare employment trends …

should center on promoting the acceptability of female employment and investing in growing economic sectors that are more … attractive for female employment …

estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per …

period is the collapse in the number of farming jobs without a parallel emergence of other employment opportunities … considered suitable for women. The paper develops a novel approach to capture the structure of employment at the village or town …

that draw in female workers have expanded least, so that changes in the sectoral structure of employment alone would have …

explanation behind these findings may be economic and cultural. Jobless growth and the lack of growth in employment sectors such … as manufacturing and services, which proved critical for female employment in other countries, weaken labor demand and …

, the determinants and dynamics of individuals' participation in off-farm employment activities have not received adequate … individual-level off-farm (wage and self) employment participation rates; analyzes the extent and drivers of entry into off …-farm employment and continued employment; and conducts the analysis by gender and rural/urban location. A significant share of the …