This paper has three objectives: the first is to track the changes in labor force participation behavior of women and show its evolution according to time and also according to cohorts; the second is to decompose these changes according to a group of elementary variables, such as position in the...

Female labour force participation has been increasing at a constant and continuous rate, irrespective of the fluctuations in the rate of overall economic growth. There are many reasons to this trend and to the fact that it has favored female occupational rates rather than male. As indicated by...

The share of female workers is significantly higher i the public than the private sector. This could be due to several reasons: different preferences towards job characteristics, or perhaps to lower discrimination against women in the public sector due to strict wage grids and hiring and...