Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51809 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5589
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their labor supply. In line with previous studies, we find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to women in non-migrant households. Furthermore, we find evidence that this labor supply response is driven by the household's need to replace the migrant's labor rather than by a loosening of a financing constraint on family enterprises made possible by the flow of remittances.
Subjects: 
migration
remittances
labor supply
gender
JEL: 
O15
J22
F22
R23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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