abstract: 'Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and

  2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated since the late 1980s.

  Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wage and education

  levels, married women''s labor force participation hovered around 18

  percent. Analysis of five large cross-sectional micro surveys shows that

  a combination of supply and demand effects have contributed to this

  stagnation. The main supply side factors are rising household incomes

  and husband''s education as well as the falling selectivity of highly

  educated women. On the demand side, the sectors that draw in female

  workers have expanded least, so that changes in the sectoral structure

  of employment alone would have actually led to declining participation

  rates.'
affiliation: 'Pieters, J (Corresponding Author), Wageningen Univ, NL-6700 AP Wageningen,
  Netherlands.

  Klasen, Stephan, Univ Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany.

  Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke, IZA, Bonn, Germany.

  Pieters, Janneke, Wageningen Univ, NL-6700 AP Wageningen, Netherlands.'
author: Klasen, Stephan and Pieters, Janneke
author-email: 'sklasen@uni-goettingen.de

  janneke.pieters@wur.nl'
author_list:
- family: Klasen
  given: Stephan
- family: Pieters
  given: Janneke
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/wber/lhv003
eissn: 1564-698X
files: []
issn: 0258-6770
journal: WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; WOMENS WORK; EDUCATION; GROWTH; ALLOCATION;

  INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; CHINA; CASTE; PANEL'
language: English
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '54'
pages: 449-478
papis_id: b67d45e0500df8fcce9347f4fa8724bb
ref: Klasen2015whatexplains
times-cited: '135'
title: What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000363927800002
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usage-count-since-2013: '31'
volume: '29'
web-of-science-categories: Business, Finance; Development Studies; Economics
year: '2015'