The Impact of Education on the Female Labor Force in Argentina and Paraguay

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (2, Part 2) ◽  
pp. S180-S195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina H. Wainerman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Female Secondary Stipend and Assistance Program in Bangladesh: What Did It Accomplish?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahidur Rahman Khandker ◽  
Hussain Akhterus Samad ◽  
Nobuhiko Fuwa ◽  
Ryotaro Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Impact

Are subsidies to female education worth supporting to enhance socioeconomic and demographic changes? This paper examines whether or not the Female Secondary Stipend and Assistance Program (FSSAP) in Bangladesh matters. If it does, how much and in what way—on both observed short- and long- term outcomes associated with female education? How did FSSAP impact the education of children, and boys in particular? The paper also explores the impact on female labor force participation, as well as age at marriage, fertility, and other effects on society.

scholarly journals Role of Female Labor Force Participation in Child Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-388
Author(s):  
Mabrooka Altaf ◽  
Tusawar Iftikhar Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Azhar Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Immunization Coverage ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
World Health ◽  
P Value ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Child Immunization ◽  
The Impact

The objective of the study is to investigate the impact of female labor force participation on child (under 5-years of age) health in Pakistan. Child health was gauged through child immunization coverage status measured by recording receipt of 22 doses of eight basic vaccines.  A micro data set (i.e., 5872 children) from Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) 2017-2018 was utilized for the study. As per recommendations of the World Health Organization, if a child had received all the 22 doses of those eight important vaccinations, he/she was assumed as highly immunized, and vice versa. The impact of mothers’ employment and other explanatory variables, on child health, was investigated using Ordered logistic regression. The child with higher birth order (OR = 0.927; p-value = 0.000), the child of not-working mother (OR = 0.829; p-value = 0.012), the child of illiterate mothers (OR = 0.606; p-value = 0.000), the child of the mother having no own mobile phone (OR = 0.793; p-value = 0.000), and the child belonged to the poorest family (OR = 0.535; p-value = 0.000) had less likelihood of immunization coverage. Mother’s age (OR = 1.055; p-value = 0.005), number of ANC visits made by the mother (OR = 0.925; p-value = 0.000), and male gender of the child (OR = 1.086; p-value = 0.082) had more probabilities for child immunization coverage. Hence, there is a need to alleviate poverty and gender discrimination as well as to create  opportunities to increase female education, awareness, and labor force participation for better outcomes relating to child health.

scholarly journals Leaving Work Behind? The Impact of Emigration on Female Labor Force Participation in Morocco

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-153
Author(s):  
Audrey Lenoël ◽  
Anda David
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Unpaid Family Work

Based on a mixed-methods approach using the 2006–2007 Morocco Living Standards Measurement Survey and qualitative interviews, this article examines the distinct roles that international migration and remittances play in female labor force participation (FLFP) in origin-country households and discusses the implications in terms of women’s empowerment. We find that having an emigrant among household members increases FLFP for a given household, while receiving remittances decreases it. However, these effects are significant only for unpaid family work, that is, a category of work unlikely to lead to any form of economic empowerment. Although previous studies sometimes hypothesized that emigration could drive gender-sensitive development at origin, the quantitative and fieldwork findings suggest that, while paid work remains a route to female empowerment, predominantly male emigration is unlikely to play a positive role in supporting women’s access to income-generating activities in a society characterized by strong patriarchal gender norms and poor job opportunities.

scholarly journals The effect of child benefit on female labor supply

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iga Magda ◽  
Aneta Kiełczewska ◽  
Nicola Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Female Labor Supply ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Child Benefit

AbstractIn 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called “Family 500+”, with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor supply, using Labor Force Survey data. Based on a difference-in-differences methodology, we find that the labor market participation rates of women with children decreased after the introduction of the benefit compared to that of childless women. The labor force participation rate of mothers showed a drop of 2–3 percentage points by mid-2017 as a result of the “Family 500+” program. The effect was higher among women with lower levels of education and among women living in small towns.

scholarly journals Female Labor Force Participation under COVID-19 Pandemic:Evidence from the first round of the Uganda High-frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukoki James ◽  
Candia Andabati Douglas ◽  
Ssebulime Kurayish ◽  
Musoke Edward
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Female Labor Force Participation ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Phone Survey ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease has taken the world by storm, given the containment measures better known as the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), including strict or mild lockdowns and social distancing measures. The impact of these aggregated measures have caused not only loss of lives but also financial, economic, social and even political unrest around the world and Uganda has not been spared either, given its weak economic and health care system (UBOS 2020). This study thus was designed to investigate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures and its associated self-reported threat on the female labor force participation (FLFP) in Uganda following the March 20th 2020 shutdown of the economy by the government. The interest in women in this study stems from the fact that despite economic activity shutdown, women’s work and roles extend beyond their office space to their home. Therefore using the first round of the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (UHFS) dataset conducted by Uganda Bureau of Statistic (UBOS) following the lockdown measure, our results indicates a 17% reduction in FLFP in the early days of the economic shutdown. We further find larger impacts of lockdown on female labor force participation in extreme cases where both partners are under locked down. These impacts are more pronounced among women with children as opposed to those without children. Conversely our results indicates larger impacts of lockdown among those with initial conditions of unemployment prior to the outbreak than those who were employed in time following the pandemic outbreak. We see our results as being consistent with the famous household labor theories. Our results point to the need for preferential treatment for women to encourage and enhance their labor market participation in times of pandemic. Lastly social programs targeting particularly women should be designed and implemented under the ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development.

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