abstract: 'Female labor force participation rates in the Middle East and North

  Africa are low compared to other world regions. This study contributes

  to the literature explaining this phenomenon in Egypt (1998, 2006,

  2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014) by referring to women''s

  unearned incomes, whether in the form of household wealth, the presence

  of male earners in the household, or total male monthly income. We

  estimate probability models of women''s labor force participation, for

  the entire sample and, recognizing the role of wealth, by household

  wealth quintile. We find that the higher the wealth index of a woman''s

  household, the less likely the woman is to participate in the labor

  force. This result holds even when the presence of a male wage worker in

  the household is accounted for, and when male income is included. The

  degree of regional wealth inequality also has bearing on women''s labor

  force participation, but the results differ between Egypt, on the one

  hand, and Jordan and Tunisia, on the other hand. The magnitudes of the

  substitution and income effects on women''s labor force participation

  vary by country and survey wave, and particularly between women in

  different wealth quintiles. (C) 2019 Board of Trustees of the University

  of Illinois. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'AlAzzawi, S (Corresponding Author), Santa Clara Univ, Leavey Sch Business,
  Econ Dept, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA.

  AlAzzawi, Shireen, Santa Clara Univ, Leavey Sch Business, Econ Dept, 500 El Camino
  Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA.

  AlAzzawi, Shireen, Econ Res Forum, Cairo, Egypt.

  Hlasny, Vladimir, Ewha Womans Univ, Econ Dept, 401 Ewha Posco Bldg, Seoul 120750,
  South Korea.'
author: AlAzzawi, Shireen and Hlasny, Vladimir
author-email: 'salazzawi@scu.edu

  vhlasny@ewha.ac.kr'
author_list:
- family: AlAzzawi
  given: Shireen
- family: Hlasny
  given: Vladimir
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.qref.2019.08.002
eissn: 1878-4259
files: []
issn: 1062-9769
journal: QUARTERLY REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
keywords: 'Female employment; Labor force participation; Asset-based wealth; Wealth

  inequality; MENA'
keywords-plus: POVERTY; INEQUALITY
language: English
month: AUG
number: SI
number-of-cited-references: '24'
orcid-numbers: Hlasny, Vladimir/0000-0002-6029-1634
pages: 3-13
papis_id: a1edae22ee3b1f36dc85207009f11c1d
ref: Alazzawi2019householdasset
researcherid-numbers: Hlasny, Vladimir/AAI-9716-2020
times-cited: '4'
title: Household asset wealth and female labor supply in MENA
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000485193100002
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '73'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2019'