Economic Growth-Female Labour Force Participation Nexus: An Empirical Evidence for Pakistan

Nooreen Mujahid and Naeem uz Zafar
Additional contact information
Nooreen Mujahid: Department of Economics, University of Karachi, Karachi
Naeem uz Zafar: Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.

The Pakistan Development Review, 2012, vol. 51, issue 4, 565-586

Abstract: Economic literature shows significant attention towards the role played by Female labour force in the economic development of nations. The structural changes of economies from agriculture to industrial and services sector reduce the female labour force participation in case of developing nations like Pakistan. This study investigates the nexus between economic growth and female labour force participation for Pakistan’s economy over the period of 1980-2010. In this respect, an attempt is made to find out the U-shaped curve between Female labour force and economic development by employing ARDL technique and Granger causality. The results show long run and U-shaped association between economic development and female labour force participation in case of Pakistan. Our study shows that an increase in education and dynamics of economic activity increases the female labour force participation in later stage of development.

Keywords: Female Labour Force; Economic Growth; Development; Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J11 J16 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (21)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2012/Volume4/565-586.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pid:journl:v:51:y:2012:i:4:p:565-586

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The Pakistan Development Review from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Khurram Iqbal ().