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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria
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| Autores: |
Aromolaran, Adebayo B.
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| Data: |
2006-01-27
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| Ano: |
2004
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| Palavras-chave: |
Nigeria
Female schooling
Womens labor market participation
Non-market productivity
Labor and Human Capital
I21
J22
J24
O15
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| Resumo: |
Economists have argued that increasing female schooling positively influences the labor supply of married women by inducing a faster rise in market productivity relative to non-market productivity. I use the Nigerian Labor Force Survey to investigate how own and husbands schooling affect womens labor market participation. I find that additional years of postsecondary education increases wage market participation probability by as much as 15.2%. A marginal increase in primary schooling has no effect on probability of wage employment, but could enhance participation rates in self-employment by about 5.40%. These effects are likely to be stronger when a woman is married to a more educated spouse. The results suggest that primary education is more productive in non-wage work relative to wage work, while postsecondary education is more productive in wage work. Finally, I find evidence suggesting that non-market work may not be a normal good for married women in Nigeria.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
19626
http://purl.umn.edu/28451
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Yale University>Economic Growth Center>Center Discussion Papers
Center Discussion Paper No. 879
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| Formato: |
71
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