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- Title
Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India.
- Authors
Azam, Mehtabul; Han, Luyi
- Abstract
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force participation rate between the two countries by carrying out decomposition exercise at three points of time covering two decades. We find that the differences in female labor force participation rate are not explained by the differences in characteristics across the two countries in each of the three year studied. The differences in returns to these characteristics explain most of the differences in participation rate.
- Subjects
INDIA; CHINA; LABOR supply
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2194-6108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejeap-2019-0302