This study examines, empirically, the influence of household structure on labor market participation in Nigeria. The study made use of the data collected by the defunct National Manpower Board in 2005 in the Nigerian Labor Market Survey conducted that year. The study establishes the relative importance of the household structure in influencing labor force participation of household members whil...

This article investigates the effect of age and number of children on retirement, and tries to explain increasing labor force participation rate since the mid-1990’s in the United States. I estimate a life-cycle model to figure out how number and age of children affect the retirement age of parents, and simulate life-cycle paths of the labor force participation rate by using the estimated model...

Objective The aim of this study was to describe the application of latent class growth analysis (LCGA) to identify different working life trajectories (WLT) using employed working time by year as a repeated measure. Methods Trajectories are estimated using LCGA, which considers all individuals within a trajectory to be homogeneous. The methodology was applied to a subsample of the Spanish WORKi...

In many developing countries, women are prevented to take full advantage of the benefits of living in an urban area. In India, while one of every two men participates in the labor market, it is the case just for one of every six women. In this context, it is thought that access to microfinance is key to bridge the gap and to introduce women into the labor force. This is the first project to rig...

This paper explores the link between prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates observed in South Asian countries. The Labor Force Surveys from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan are merged with Global Terrorism Database to estimate effect terrorist attacks on supply. We exploit geographical variation exposure violence compare administrative uni...

Military engagements since the early 2000s have brought renewed public interest to issues involving the US military and its veterans. Yet the stark differences in the labor market experiences of veterans and nonveterans have received fairly little attention. In 2013, the labor force participation rate for male veterans ages 18 to 64 was 76.1 percent, significantly lower than the 82.0 percent ra...

I document differences in labor supply between a set of Latin American countries and the U.S. in the period 1990-2005. These differences are mostly explained by large differences in female labor supply. In the U.S. the female labor force participation was 69% by 1990, while in Brazil and Mexico was 39% and 37%, respectively. Females began to participate more in the labor market of these countri...

We find differential rates of cohabitation with adult relatives as well as differential impacts of that cohabitation on the probability of employment for married female immigrants across regions of origin. This suggests that traditions and/or cultural determinants of family structure influence female labor force participation. Not surprisingly, we also find that the labor supply response is big...