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Employment transitions of women in India : a panel analysis
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Sarkar, Sudipa, Sahoo, Soham and Klasen, Stephan (2019) Employment transitions of women in India : a panel analysis. World Development, 115 . pp. 291-309. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.003 ISSN 0305-750X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.003
Abstract
This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied in the recent literature. However, no study so far has looked into the dynamics of employment in terms of labour force entry and exit in this context. Using a nationally representative panel dataset, we show that women are not only participating less in the labour force, but also dropping out at an alarming rate. We estimate an endogenous switching model that corrects for selection bias due to initial employment and panel attrition, to investigate the determinants of women’s entry into and exit from employment. We find that an increase in wealth and income of other members of the household leads to lower entry and higher exit probabilities of women. Along with the effects of caste and religion, this result reveals the importance of cultural and economic factors in explaining the low workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and household level determinants of women’s employment transitions. Moreover, we find that a large public workfare program significantly reduces women’s exit from the labour force. Our study indicates that women’s entry and exit decisions are not necessarily symmetric, and it is important to consider the inter-temporal dependence of labour supply decisions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Employment -- India , Women -- India -- Social conditions | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | World Development | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0305-750X | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | March 2019 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 115 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 291-309 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.003 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 January 2019 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 December 2020 | ||||||||||||
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