Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207505 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12681
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force participation rate between the two countries by carrying out decomposition exercise at three points of time covering two decades. We find that the differences in female labor force participation rate are not explained by the differences in characteristics across the two countries in each of the three year studied. The differences in returns to these characteristics explain most of the differences in participation rate.
Subjects: 
female labor force
China
India
oaxaca-blinder decomposition
JEL: 
J16
J82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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