Structural Transformation and the U-Shaped Female Labor Supply

Claudia Olivetti and L. Rachel Ngai

No 1501, 2015 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: The nature and extent of segmentation of economic activity across genders and its changing roles during the course of economic development has been a central topic of inquiry since Ester Boserup's pioneering work on Woman's Role in Economic Development. The evidence, both historically for the U.S. and other developed economies and over large cross-sections of countries, suggests that the relationship between women's labor force participation and economic development is U-shaped. This paper investigates the link between the U-shaped evolution of womens employment and the process of structural transformation in the course of economic development. Specically, it shows how this pattern can be rationalized based on a model of structural transformation with home production.

Date: 2015
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