recommendations for further policies in this area. Entrepreneurship can create new economic opportunities for women and contribute to … balancing work and family obligations for women. However, entrepreneurs, both male and female, are relatively scarce in India …

puzzling and stands out among emerging markets. At the same time greater economic participation of women can be a source of … inclusive growth, and wellbeing. Assessing determinants of the labour force participation of women in India can open important … in India. Apart from lack of jobs, social and cultural factors keep women outside the labour force. Other determinants …

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 …

The aim of this research was to canvass Saudi women’s opinions about behavioral beliefs, i.e., attitudes, subjective … campaigns in order to promote the involvement in small businesses in the community, raising women’s attitudes towards this type …

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 …

contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with … women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of …

marketplaces. Married women, who typically reduce the time they allocate to work due to their responsibility to take care of their … women who are the owners or managers of MSEs and also the probability of working for them. We employ IV estimates, and use … working hours of married women. In addition, we find that married women in urban areas increase their working hours when they …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …

countries on four continents there is no difference-men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is …