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来源类型 | Faculty Working Papers |
规范类型 | 工作论文 |
来源ID | CID Faculty Working Paper No. 365 |
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle | |
Semiray Kasoolu; Ricardo Hausmann; Tim O'Brien; Miguel Angel Santos | |
发表日期 | 2019-10 |
出版年 | 2019 |
摘要 | Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not exploited available datasets to test across causal explanations. We develop a comprehensive framework to analyze the drivers of low female employment rates in Jordan and systematically test their validity, using micro-level data from Employment and Unemployment Surveys (2008-2018) and the Jordanian Labor Market Panel Survey (2010-2016). We find that the nature of low female inclusion in Jordan’s labor market varies significantly with educational attainment, and identify evidence for different factors affecting different educational groups. Among women with high school education or less, we observe extremely low participation levels and find the strongest evidence for this phenomenon tracing to traditional social norms and poor public transportation. On the higher end of the education spectrum – university graduates and above – we find that the problem is not one of participation, but rather of unemployment, which we attribute to a small and undiversified private sector that is unable to accommodate women’s needs for work and work-family balance. |
URL | https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers/female-labor-jordan |
来源智库 | Center for International Development (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/503284 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Semiray Kasoolu,Ricardo Hausmann,Tim O'Brien,et al. Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle. 2019. |
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