Women’s Mobility in the Argentine Labour Market

María del Pilar Casal and Bradford L. Barham
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María del Pilar Casal: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bradford L. Barham: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Económica, 2013, vol. 59, 88-125

Abstract: This paper examines women?s labor mobility in Argentina in 1995-2003 across 4 sectors: formal, informal, unemployment, and inactivity. We incorporate alternative measures of labor mobility, and estimate a multinomial logit model of sector choice. The results support the hypothesis of segmented labor markets. Highly educated women, even those married with children, more easily access the formal sector than less educated women. Non-mothers experience fewer barriers to movement from informal to formal. Having more children raises the probability that women will transition from the formal to the informal sector and from the informal sector to exiting the labor market.

Keywords: Labor market segmentation; Gender; Labor mobility; Motherhood penalty; Argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J21 J60 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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