abstract: 'We investigate the micro-level determinants of labour force

  participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income

  economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa,

  Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and

  differences in participation rates since the early 2000s, we build a

  unified empirical framework that allows for comparative analyses across

  time and space. We find that the returns to the characteristics of women

  and their families differ substantially across countries, and this

  explains most of the between-country differences in participation rates.

  Overall, the economic, social, and institutional constraints that shape

  women''s labour force participation remain largely country-specific.

  Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility

  consistently increased participation rates, while rising household

  incomes contributed negatively in relatively poorer countries,

  suggesting that a substantial share of women work out of economic

  necessity.'
affiliation: 'Silva, MS (Corresponding Author), Univ Goettingen, Econ, Pl Goettinger
  Sieben 5, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany.

  Klasen, Stephan; Silva, Manuel Santos, Univ Goettingen, Econ, Pl Goettinger Sieben
  5, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany.

  Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke, Inst Labor Econ IZA, Bonn, Germany.

  Le, Tu Thi Ngoc, Hoa Sen Univ, Inst Dev \& Appl Econ IDAE, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

  Pieters, Janneke, Wageningen Univ, Dept Social Sci, Dev Econ Grp, Wageningen, Netherlands.'
author: Klasen, Stephan and Le, Tu Thi Ngoc and Pieters, Janneke and Silva, Manuel
  Santos
author-email: ssilva@gwdg.de
author_list:
- family: Klasen
  given: Stephan
- family: Le
  given: Tu Thi Ngoc
- family: Pieters
  given: Janneke
- family: Silva
  given: Manuel Santos
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1790533
earlyaccessdate: JUL 2020
eissn: 1743-9140
files: []
issn: 0022-0388
journal: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
keywords-plus: 'GLOBAL FEMINIZATION; INCOME INEQUALITY; WOMENS WORK; GENDER; MARKETS;

  DETERMINANTS; ELASTICITIES; UNEMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT; EXPLAINS'
language: English
month: MAR 4
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '58'
orcid-numbers: 'Le, Thi Ngoc Tu/0000-0002-7856-7045

  Pieters, Janneke/0000-0002-4575-2295'
pages: 417-442
papis_id: a9cc0fa34678f26d5ca0f40b74cef915
ref: Klasen2021whatdrives
times-cited: '22'
title: What Drives Female Labour Force Participation? Comparable Micro-level Evidence
  from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000550082100001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '23'
volume: '57'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2021'