The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by looking at the determinants of female labour force participation in 1996 and 2001 (data from the Belarusian Household Survey)...

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Year of publication:	2008-04-01
Authors:	Pastore, Francesco ; Verashchagina, Alina
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Geschlecht \| gender \| Gehaltsstruktur \| Wechsel

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Extent:	478208 bytes 26 p. application/pdf
Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3457 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; P20 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies. General ; P52 - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies ; Others ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Belarus ; Russia
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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