Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Indonesia Country Study

Simone Schaner and Smita Das ()
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Smita Das: Harvard Kennedy School of Government

No 474, ADB Economics Working Paper Series from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia’s labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in rural areas have reduced their labor force participation, largely by opting out of informal, unpaid employment. We find evidence that wage jobs are more desirable than other types of work and that many women exit wage work due to family and childcare constraints. We outline a research-policy evaluation of female-centered vocational training and job placement services, which may be effective tools to increase FLFP.

Keywords: gender; Indonesia; labor force participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J22 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2016-02-10
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