Migration of women as domestic workers from developing to developed countries is a growing phenomenon. In Hong Kong, foreign domestic workers (FDWs) account for 6 percent of the labor force and among households with young children, more than one in three hires at least one. This paper investigates the e¤ects of the availability of foreign domestic workers on Hong Kong women’s welfare and decisi...

Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are tested using individual data from Curr...

Marital status and labor supply decisions could be correlated on the unobservable. Using South Korean data, this paper exploits exogenous selection into marriage caused by an eccentric cultural phenomenon—preferences for wives’ zodiacal signs—to estimate the causal effect of marital status on female labor force participation. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The unprecedented growth in access to mobile phones and smartphones has opened up new possibilities the way people live work. However, women developing countries are unable take advantage of this due certain factors socio-cultural norms that give rise gender digital divide. In study, using nationally representative Pakistan Social Living Standards Measurement Survey (2019–2020), we investigate ...

This paper analyzes the effect of international trade on the gender wage gap and the resulting impact on households’ trade-off between female labor force participation (FLFP) and fertility. We argue that whenever trade expands sectors intensive in female labor, the gender wage gap widens and FLFP falls. In a model where male labor and female labor are two distinct factors of production we disti...

The recent trends in female labour force participation have garnered considerable attention among policymakers and research scholars India, primarily because of the sudden significant falls rates presence many enabling factors, particularly growth GDP. Studies on falling examined underlying ‘pull push’ factors but few them analysed role productivity. This study attempts to a preliminary underst...