LabourFemale labour force participation(FLFP) in Indiahas gone down from 42.74% in 2005 to 24.53% in 2019. This is the case when education levels have gone up and fertility rate has declined. Against this backdrop, this paper studies the low figures of female employment in India. It draws...
"Female Labor Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme." Young Lives Working Paper 95. http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/WP/female-labour-force-participation-and-child-education-in-india....
Youth participation in the labour force has been heartening and so is the participation of women, both in urban and rural India. As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), unemployment has dropped from 17.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 10 per cent in 2022-23 for youth in the age group ...
Female Labour-Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 2012. Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India: The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.Afridi, Farzana, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, and Soh...
labour force participationearnings functionselectivity correctionIndiaLabour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market ...
In spite of increasing access to female education occurring against a backdrop of rapid economic growth, female labour force participation rates have been declining in India. This paper investigates the relationship between education and female labour force participation using a dataset used less often ...
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force...
This article examines the pattern of female labour force participation since the 2000s in South Asia (SA) and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The objectives of the paper are twofold: first, to identify the factors that have led to change
and some countries do not count members of the armed forces. Labor force size tends to vary during the year as seasonal workers enter and leave. Data are generated with World Bank population estimates and ILO estimates on labor force participation rate. The ILO estimates are harmonized to ensure...
In rural India, agriculture and allied industrial sectors employ almost 90 per cent of the total female labour. 在印度农村地区,农业及其相关的工业部门雇用的妇女几乎占全部女性劳动力的90% UN-2 There is also potential to enhance female labour force participation in countries expected to face labo...