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

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

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Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia : a gendered life-course perspective

Admasu, Yeshwas; Crivello, Gina; Porter, Catherine - 2021

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …

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Can economic pressure overcome social norms? : the case of female labor force participation

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2018

segregation decreases? Does the gender pay gap decline? We exploit exogenous variation in sex ratios across cohorts and regions … entered traditionally male-dominated occupations and industries, and the gender pay gap declined. These findings are …

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis: Religion and Female Employment over Time

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis : religion and female employment over time

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

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Young women's transitions from education to the labour market in Ethiopia: A gendered life-course perspective

Admasu, Yeshwas; Crivello, Gina; Porter, Catherine - 2021

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651167

The reasons of decreasing trend of female labour force participation in Turkey: The role of conservatism

Göksel, Idil - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate the main determinants of the participation decision of females in the labour force in Turkey. Turkey is a particularly important case as, unlike in many other countries, female labour force participation has shown a decreasing trend in the last 50 years....

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The economic gains of closing the employment gender gap : evidence from Morocco

Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2021

The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … confront two different approaches. The first one is based on firm data to estimate gender complementarity in production and …

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The distribution of the gender wage gap

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2018

We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …

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