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What Drives Female Labour Force Participation? Comparable Micro-level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies

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This paper investigated the micro-level determinants of labour force participation of urban married women in eight low and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, and South America.
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We investigate the micro-level determinants of labour force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, ...

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Globalization and the gender wage gap

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What Explains Uneven Female Labor Force Participation Levels and Trends in Developing Countries

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rapid fertility decline, a strong expansion of female education, and favorable economic conditions should have promoted female labor force participation in developing countries, yet trends in femal...
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the United States: New Results

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Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies

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Early-Life exposure to rainfall shocks and gender gaps in employment: Findings from Vietnam

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Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

TL;DR: This paper used a new instrumental variable, the sex composition of the first two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply.
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Children and their parents labor supply: evidence from exogenous variation in family size.

TL;DR: This article used a new instrumental variable the sex composition of the first two births in families with at least two children to estimate the effect of additional children on parents labor supply in the United States, and found that married women who have a third child reduce their labor supply by as much as women in the full sample while there is no relationship between wives childbearing and husbands labor supply.
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Testing the quantity-quality fertility model: the use of twins as a natural experiment.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that commodity-independent compensated price effects must be known to infer the existence of the unobservable interdependent shadow prices of the model with a relatively weak structure improsed on preference orderings.
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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

TL;DR: The authors provided a new quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage differentials as it concerns not only differences in methodology, data, and time periods, but also different countries.
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Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor: A Theme Revisited

TL;DR: The main hypothesis of the original hypothesis was that the changing character of labor markets around the world had been leading to a rise in female labor force participation and a relative if not absolute fall in men's employment, as well as a feminization of many jobs traditionally held by men.
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