Labour Force Participation Rates in the London Metropolitan Region

female labour force participation: persistence and evolution

This article explores the relevance of deep historical forces that have influenced the historical gender division of labour and the perception of women’s roles in society more generally. In particular, we will review how different types of subsistence activity in the ancient past – such as hunting and gathering and various types of agricultural technology – and geography and language can affect...

Political Conditions and Female Labour Force Participation

This paper examines the impact of political conditions on female labour force participation in case of Pakistan. The study covers the period of 1980-2010. We found the existence of cointegration between the variables. Democracy and government spending lowers labour female labour participation. Development spending increases female labour participation. This study opens up new insights for polic...

The determinants of labour force participation and employment in Chile

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INTRODUCTION For many years, the conventional wisdom has been that immigrants had higher labourforce participation rates than the Australianborn population, and this belief contributed to the claims about the economic benefits of immigration. However, a doser look at labour-force statistics reveals that this assumption has been incorrect for at least a decade with regard to females, and for mor...

Female Labour Force Participation in Kerala: Problems and Prospects