Female labor force participation in Latin America: evidence of deceleration

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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, breakin...

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Autores principales: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos, Marchionni, Mariana, Badaracco, Nicolás, Serrano, Joaquín
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Publicado: 2014
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female labor force participation
Latin America
decompositions
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1702512024-09-18T04:09:59Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170251 Female labor force participation in Latin America: evidence of deceleration Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos Marchionni, Mariana Badaracco, Nicolás Serrano, Joaquín 2014-11 2014 2024-09-17T13:16:06Z en Ciencias Económicas female labor force participation Latin America decompositions 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. El presente trabajo documenta los cambios en la tasa de participación laboral femenina (LFP) en América Latina explotando una gran base de datos basada en microdatos de encuestas de hogares de 15 países en el período 1992-2012. Se encuentra evidencia de una desaceleración significativa en la tasa de crecimiento de la LFP femenina en la década del 2000, rompiendo el fuerte patrón de crecimiento que caracterizó a la región durante al menos 50 años. A través de una serie de descomposiciones simples el artículo contribuye a desentrañar si los patrones de la LFP femenina se deben principalmente a cambios en la distribución de algunos determinantes directos de la decisión de oferta de trabajo (por ejemplo, educación), o si son esencialmente consecuencia de una transformación más profunda en el comportamiento de los individuos. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
female labor force participation
Latin America
decompositions
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
female labor force participation
Latin America
decompositions
Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Marchionni, Mariana
Badaracco, Nicolás
Serrano, Joaquín
Female labor force participation in Latin America: evidence of deceleration
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
female labor force participation
Latin America
decompositions
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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Marchionni, Mariana
Badaracco, Nicolás
Serrano, Joaquín
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Badaracco, Nicolás
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title Female labor force participation in Latin America: evidence of deceleration
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
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