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This paper exploits a rich dataset from various administrative sources to study short- and medium-term labor market outcomes of vocational education and training graduates in Saudi Arabia. It examines five cohorts of graduates from institutes operated by the Technical and Vocational Training...
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How important are social constraints and information gaps in explaining the low rates of female labor force participation (FLFP) in conservative societies that are undergoing social change? To answer this question, we conducted a field experiment embedded in a survey of female university...
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Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of … employment across firms to estimate the share of firms with binding integration costs and counterfactual female employment at all … suggestive evidence that integration costs reduce aggregate female employment. Using survey data on manufacturing firms in 65 …
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Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...
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Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of … employment across firms to estimate the share of firms with binding integration costs and counterfactual female employment at all … suggestive evidence that integration costs reduce aggregate female employment. Using survey data on manufacturing firms in 65 …
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