Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations

Autores
Busso, Matías; Romero Fonseca, Darío
Año de publicación
2015
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Female labor force participation has increased 10 percentage points between 1990 and 2010. This paper analyzes the possible determinants of this increase. Among those determinants are changes in education, family structure, fertility, as well as changes in socioeconomic environment including wages, returns to working at home, preferences, and technology, among 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 estimated in the literature and combine them with information about the changes in the causing variables. We also use data from household surveys and combine them with a dataset of determinants to find correlations in the data that reinforce or reject the analysis of the literature review.
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JEL: J22, J16, N3
América Latina
mujer
female labor supply
determinants
literature review
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title Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
spellingShingle Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
Busso, Matías
Ciencias Económicas
empleo
JEL: J22, J16, N3
América Latina
mujer
female labor supply
determinants
literature review
title_short Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
title_full Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
title_fullStr Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
title_full_unstemmed Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
title_sort Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Patterns and Explanations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Busso, Matías
Romero Fonseca, Darío
author Busso, Matías
author_facet Busso, Matías
Romero Fonseca, Darío
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
empleo
JEL: J22, J16, N3
América Latina
mujer
female labor supply
determinants
literature review
topic Ciencias Económicas
empleo
JEL: J22, J16, N3
América Latina
mujer
female labor supply
determinants
literature review
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Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
description Female labor force participation has increased 10 percentage points between 1990 and 2010. This paper analyzes the possible determinants of this increase. Among those determinants are changes in education, family structure, fertility, as well as changes in socioeconomic environment including wages, returns to working at home, preferences, and technology, among 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 estimated in the literature and combine them with information about the changes in the causing variables. We also use data from household surveys and combine them with a dataset of determinants to find correlations in the data that reinforce or reject the analysis of the literature review.
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