Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat

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“…with greater labor force participation (Eckstein and Lifshitz 2011;Steinberg and Nakane 2012). Infrastructure investment in electricity, clean water, and sanitation also facilitates female labor force participation by freeing women's time for gainful employment (Ghani, Kerr, and O'Connell 2013;Norando Better governance is also associated with better education (Gerged and Elheddad 2020) and greater and better-quality infrastructure investment (Aghion et al 2016;Chen, Liu, and Lee 2020;d'Agostino, Dunne, and Pieroni 2016).…”

Section: Reinforcing Interactions Between Reformsmentioning

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Potential Growth Prospects: Risks, Rewards, and Policies

Çelik¹,

Kose²,

Ohnsorge³

2023

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Potential output growth around the world slowed over the past two decades. This slowdown is expected to continue in the remainder of the 2020s: global potential growth is projected to average 2.2 percent per year in 2022-30, 0.4 percentage point below its 2011-21 average. Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) will face an even steeper slowdown, of about 1.0 percentage point to 4.0 percent per year on average during 2022-30. The slowdown will be widespread, affecting most EMDEs and countries accounting for 70 percent of global GDP. Global potential growth over the remainder of this decade could be even slower than projected in the baseline scenario-by another 0.2-0.9 percentage point a year-if investment growth, improvements in health and education outcomes, or developments in labor markets disappoint, or if adverse events materialize. A menu of policy options is available to help reverse the trend of weakening economic growth, including policies to enhance physical and human capital accumulation; to encourage labor force participation by women and older adults; to improve the efficiency of public spending; and to mitigate and adapt to climate change, including infrastructure investment to facilitate the green transition.

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Section: Reinforcing Interactions Between Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Potential Growth Prospects: Risks, Rewards, and Policies

Çelik¹,

Kose²,

Ohnsorge³

2023

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“…As an opposite case, a husband's unemployment tends to pull married women into the labour force by prevailing an added worker effect [39]. However, this endogeneity issue is addressed by several empirical studies with attempts to differentiate the impact of fertility and other endogenous variables in dynamic settings [19,[40][41][42].…”

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Compulsory Education Reform, Family Barriers and Female Labour Supply in Turkey: Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Zayim

Kayaoğlu

2023

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This study investigates heterogeneous treatment effects of compulsory education reform in Turkey on demand for education and labour supply decisions across gender groups and family status using a Regression Discontinuity Design. Although increasing the compulsory schooling years has successfully narrowed the gender gap in labour supply, we find that this effect was only through higher labor force participation of single women and women without children. In other words, our results signify that marriage and fertility have shadowed the human capital effect of higher education. Therefore, policymakers should mainly focus on supply-side policies to mitigate family barriers to raise female labour force participation in Turkey. JEL Classification: J12, J13, J22, J24

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“…Across countries, including in Europe and the USA, rising educational levels significantly affected being in paid work, particularly among women (England et al , 2012). For example, in the USA, around 40 per cent of the increase in employment at ages 48–52 for US women born between 1925 and 1950 was due to rising education (Eckstein and Lifshitz, 2011). Women's participation in occupational pension schemes, which may affect attachment to paid work in the years leading up to SPA (Pienta et al , 1994), also changed markedly for our cohorts under study.…”

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Changes in labour market histories and their relationship with paid work around state pension age: evidence from three British longitudinal studies

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Many countries have implemented policies to extend working lives in response to population ageing, yet there remains little understanding of what drives paid work in later life, nor how this is changing over time. This paper utilises the 1988/89 Survey of Retirement and Retirement Plans, the 1999 British Household Panel Survey and the 2008 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, to investigate drivers of paid work in the ten years surrounding state pension age (SPA) for women and men in, comparing cohorts born in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Using optimal matching analysis with logistic and multinomial regression models, the study assesses the relative importance of lifecourse histories, socio-economic circumstances and contemporaneous factors, in determining paid work in mid- and later life. Participation in paid work in the five years preceding and beyond SPA increased markedly for men and women across cohorts, with women's lifecourses and engagement with paid work changing considerably in these periods. However, for women, a lifetime history of paid work remained a crucially important predictor of paid work in later life, and this relationship has strengthened over time. Experiencing divorce has also become an important driver of paid work around SPA for the youngest cohort. Having children later, and still having a mortgage, also independently predict labour force participation for women and men. Across all cohorts and for women and men, working at these older ages was a function of higher income and better health. These findings suggest that policies which enable people to maintain ties to paid work across the lifecourse may be more effective at encouraging later-life employment than those concerned only with postponing the retirement transition.

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Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Cited by 16 publications

References 4 publications

Potential Growth Prospects: Risks, Rewards, and Policies

Potential Growth Prospects: Risks, Rewards, and Policies

Compulsory Education Reform, Family Barriers and Female Labour Supply in Turkey: Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Changes in labour market histories and their relationship with paid work around state pension age: evidence from three British longitudinal studies

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