Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration

Autores
Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; Badaracco, Nicolás; Serrano, Joaquín
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
inglés
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Descripción
This paper documents changes in female labor force participation (LFP) in Latin America exploiting a large database of microdata from household surveys of 15 countries in the period 1992-2012. We find evidence for a significant deceleration in the rate of increase of female LFP in the 2000s, breaking the marked increasing pattern that characterized the region for at least 50 years. The paper documents and characterizes this fact and examines various factors that could be driving the deceleration. Through a set of simple decompositions the paper helps to disentangle whether the patterns in female LFP are mainly accounted for by changes in the distribution of some direct determinants of the labor supply decision (e.g. education), or instead they are chiefly the consequence of some more profound transformation in behavior.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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Ciencias Económicas
JEL: J2, J1
América Latina
mujer
empleo
female labor force participation
decompositions
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
title Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
spellingShingle Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
Gasparini, Leonardo
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: J2, J1
América Latina
mujer
empleo
female labor force participation
decompositions
title_short Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
title_full Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
title_fullStr Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
title_full_unstemmed Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
title_sort Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America: Evidence of Deceleration
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gasparini, Leonardo
Marchionni, Mariana
Badaracco, Nicolás
Serrano, Joaquín
author Gasparini, Leonardo
author_facet Gasparini, Leonardo
Marchionni, Mariana
Badaracco, Nicolás
Serrano, Joaquín
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author2 Marchionni, Mariana
Badaracco, Nicolás
Serrano, Joaquín
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
JEL: J2, J1
América Latina
mujer
empleo
female labor force participation
decompositions
topic Ciencias Económicas
JEL: J2, J1
América Latina
mujer
empleo
female labor force participation
decompositions
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper documents changes in female labor force participation (LFP) in Latin America exploiting a large database of microdata from household surveys of 15 countries in the period 1992-2012. We find evidence for a significant deceleration in the rate of increase of female LFP in the 2000s, breaking the marked increasing pattern that characterized the region for at least 50 years. The paper documents and characterizes this fact and examines various factors that could be driving the deceleration. Through a set of simple decompositions the paper helps to disentangle whether the patterns in female LFP are mainly accounted for by changes in the distribution of some direct determinants of the labor supply decision (e.g. education), or instead they are chiefly the consequence of some more profound transformation in behavior.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description This paper documents changes in female labor force participation (LFP) in Latin America exploiting a large database of microdata from household surveys of 15 countries in the period 1992-2012. We find evidence for a significant deceleration in the rate of increase of female LFP in the 2000s, breaking the marked increasing pattern that characterized the region for at least 50 years. The paper documents and characterizes this fact and examines various factors that could be driving the deceleration. Through a set of simple decompositions the paper helps to disentangle whether the patterns in female LFP are mainly accounted for by changes in the distribution of some direct determinants of the labor supply decision (e.g. education), or instead they are chiefly the consequence of some more profound transformation in behavior.
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