 Women Workers in India: Why So Few Among So Many?Sonali Das, Sonali Jain-Chandra, Kalpana Kochhar and Naresh Kumar No 2015/055, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates for women among peer countries. Using extensive Indian household survey data, we model the labor force participation choices of women, conditional on demographic characteristics and education, as well as looking at the influence of state-level labor market flexibility and other state policies. Our main finding is that a number of policy initiatives can help boost female economic participation in the states of India, including increased labor market flexibility, investment in infrastructure, and enhanced social spending. Keywords: WP; wage; worker; daily wage; Female labor force participation; labor market regulation; informal labor markets; India; wage determination; OECD's employment legislation index; predicted wage; entrepreneurial activity; wage employment; substitution effect; employment pattern; job contract; Labor force participation; Gender diversity; Labor force; Women; Wages; East Asia; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2015/055 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC USA. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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