Ever since the mid-1980’s and the use of longitudinal data, it has been widely recognized that poverty is a dynamic situation: there is a high degree of poverty turnover from one year to another (Duncan et al., 1984; Bane and Ellwood, 1986; Huff Stevens, 1994, 1995; Burguess and Propper, 1996). Naturally, these results concerning the nature of poverty lead to a desire to understand its causes. ...

This article empirically examines the labour market participation of Italian women, with special emphasis on the role of intergenerational family links. Elderly relatives may play an important role in explaining the work patterns of women. First, they discourage the work participation of women by requiring unpaid help; secondly, they also provide household services such as child care, favouring...

The dynamic of Israeli women’s labour market experiences is analysed, with the focus on three main determinants of their attachment to the labour market: (i) family events, particularly the effect and timing of childbirth on women’s market involvement, (ii) human capital, and (iii) structural determinants, including occupation, and sector of employment. Utilizing data from the 2001 mobility stu...

This paper examines the contribution of women’s labour input to productivity and efficiency in crop farming using a large survey dataset of 1,839 households from 16 villages in two agroecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that female labour accounts for a substantial 28% of total labour use (mainly supplied from the family) and contributes significantly to productivity as well as te...

Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City This paper investigates labour supply of married women in Mexico City. A static neoclassical structural mode is used. We assume that each woman chooses her labour supply and corresponding income so that her utility is maximized, conditional upon her husband ’s labour supply and earnings. We use a direct translog specification, and include...

The collective model of labour supply opened the household “black box” and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries the distinction of single versus multifamily (“complex”) households. We propose a method to account for the multifamily...