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The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...
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work. Mostly lacking, however, are job and business training programs that take into account how mothers' employment …
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The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....
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effects on labor market outcomes of Chilean mothers, while fathers remain unaffected. Becoming a mother implies a sharp … decline in mothers' labor supply, both in the extensive and intensive margins, and in hourly wages. We also show that … motherhood affects the occupational structure of employed mothers, as the share of jobs in the informal sector increases …
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