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| Hossain, Mohammad; Tisdell, Clement A.. |
| Empirical studies on the impact of women’s paid jobs on their empowerment and welfare in the Bangladesh context are rare. The few studies on the issue to date have all been confined to the garment workers only although studies indicate that women’s workforce participation in Bangladesh has increased across-the-board. Besides, none of these studies has made an attempt to control for the non-working women and/or applied any statistical technique to control for the effects of other pertinent determinants of women’s empowerment and welfare such as education, age, religion and place of living. This study overcomes these drawbacks and presents alternative assessments of the link between women’s workforce participation and empowerment on the basis of survey data... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Women; Empowerment; Bangladesh; Welfare; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123451 |
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| Hossain, Mohammad; Tisdell, Clement A.. |
| This paper examines the causal links between fertility and female labor force participation in Bangladesh over the period 1974-2000 by specifying a bivariate and several trivariate models in a vector error correction framework. The three trivariate models alternatively include average age at first marriage for females, per capita GDP and infant mortality rate, which control for the effects of other socio-economic factors on fertility and female labor force participation. All the specified models indicate an inverse long-run relationship between fertility and female labor force participation. While the bivariate model also indicates bidirectional causality, the multivariate models confirm only a unidirectional causality – from labor force participation... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertility; Female Labor Force Participation; Causality; Labor and Human Capital; C32; J13; J22. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/106947 |
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