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How Do Maternity Leave and Discriminatory Social Norms Relate to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries?

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  • Somali Cerise
  • Anna Eliseeva
  • Camila Mejia
  • Michele Tuccio

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Increasing women’s participation in paid employment is a fundamental step towards women’s economic empowerment and improving development outcomes. The benefits of increasing women’s labour force participation extend well beyond improving the economic status of women themselves. Gender inequality in labour force participation has a significantly negative impact on economic growth (Klasen and Lamanna, 2009) and conversely, increasing women’s labour force participation is a driver of economic growth. Therefore, understanding the determinants of women’s employment outcomes, and in particular female labour force participation is, important not only to tackle persistent gender gaps but also to enhance economic growth and accelerate progress on development goals (OECD, 2012).

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  • Somali Cerise & Anna Eliseeva & Camila Mejia & Michele Tuccio, 2016. "How Do Maternity Leave and Discriminatory Social Norms Relate to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries?," Working Papers id:11207, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11207
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    1. Asadullah, Niaz & Wahhaj, Zaki, 2016. "Missing from the Market: Purdah Norm and Women's Paid Work Participation in Bangladesh," IZA Discussion Papers 10463, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Sophie Hennekam & Jawad Syed & Faiza Ali & Jean-Pierre Dumazert, 2019. "A multilevel perspective of the identity transition to motherhood," Post-Print hal-03232775, HAL.

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