Female Labour Force Participation RateLabour MarketU-HypothesisIndian EconomyThis paper attempts to analyse the factors which affect Indian working age women's continuous withdrawal from the labourforce. The main objective deals with two specific questions: probing the empirical validity of the U-...
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 ...
The ongoing research confabulates the influence of digitalization on female labour force participation in BRICS nations. We have chosen BRICS nations for so many valid reasons. First, these nations are emerging nations and focusing a lot on digitalization. China and India’s services sectors are mak...
A number of factors may be responsible for the relatively low female labour force participation rate. 女性劳动力的参与率相对比较低可能是由多方面因素造成的。 UN-2 A number of factors may be responsible for the relatively low female labour force participation rate 女性劳动力的参与率相对比较低...
Researchers suggest that, because of this sole focus on individual attributes, human capital theory inadequately explains the complexities of social structures and labour markets (Perna, 2003; Umbach, 2007). Social scientists interested in issues of social inequality and poverty have responded to the ...
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 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 ...
Maloney (2004) reports that in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, married women with young children are more likely to enter entrepreneurship than wage labour. Married women are more likely to be entrepreneurs than non-married women, but they are also more likely to quit a business ...
During her lifetime women have been joining the labour market in increasing numbers; the global female labour force participation rate has been on the rise. Between 1980 and 2008, 552 million women joined the global labour force4 and a further one billion women are anticipated to enter the ...