Land Market Restrictions, Women's Labor Force Participation and Wages

M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

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Abstract: We analyze the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The land restrictions can have a gender and age bias because of an ex-post asymmetry in migration costs arising from older women's comparative advantage in home goods production. For identification, we exploit a natural experiment in Sri Lanka where historical malaria played a unique role in land policy. We provide robust evidence of a positive effect of land restrictions on women's labor force participation, and negative effects on female wages. The empirical results suggest that the burden of land market restrictions falls disproportionately on older women.

Keywords: Land Market Restrictions; Labor Market; Women's Labor Force Participation; Wage; Sri Lanka; Historical Malaria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 J4 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-08-17
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