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Female labor force participation in Latin America : patterns and explanations
Busso, Matias; Romero Fonseca, Dario - 2015
possible determinants of this increase. Among those determinants are changes in education, family structure, fertility, as well … others. We discuss the mechanisms behind those determinants by organizing the very large theoretical and empirical literature … on the subject. We then assess the relative importance of the determinants in two ways. We compute treatment effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305180
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Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 53 (2019) 13, pp. 1-21
We study the behavior of female labor force participation (LFP) over the business cycle by estimating fixed effects models at the country and population-group level, using data from harmonized national household surveys of 18 Latin American countries in the period 1987-2014. We find that female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208433
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Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - 2018
In this paper we analyze the role of economic growth in the recent deceleration of female labor force participation (LFP) in Latin America. We study the relationship between the business cycle and female LFP by estimating fixed effects models, using data from harmonized national household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141910
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Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - 2018
In this paper we analyze the role of economic growth in the recent deceleration of female labor force participation (LFP) in Latin America. We study the relationship between the business cycle and female LFP by estimating fixed effects models, using data from harmonized national household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882061
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Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 13, pp. 1-21
We study the behavior of female labor force participation (LFP) over the business cycle by estimating fixed effects models at the country and population-group level, using data from harmonized national household surveys of 18 Latin American countries in the period 1987-2014. We find that female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149006
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Working Less to Take Care of Parents? Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Four Latin American Countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322591
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Working less to take care of parents? Labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534453
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Four Latin American countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296661
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298761
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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...
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