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Decline in Rural Female Labour Force Participation in India: A Relook into the Causes

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  • Sunita Sanghi
  • A Srija
  • Shirke Shrinivas Vijay

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  • Sunita Sanghi & A Srija & Shirke Shrinivas Vijay, 2015. "Decline in Rural Female Labour Force Participation in India: A Relook into the Causes," Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, , vol. 40(3), pages 255-268, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:vikjou:v:40:y:2015:i:3:p:255-268
    DOI: 10.1177/0256090915598264
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    1. Kapsos, Steven. & Bourmpoula, Evangelia. & Silberman, Andrea., 2014. "Why is female labour force participation declining so sharply in India?," ILO Working Papers 994949190702676, International Labour Organization.
    2. Evangelia Bourmpoula & Andrea Silberman & Steven Kapsos, 2015. "Why is Female Labour Force Participation Declining so Sharply in India?," Working Papers id:7337, eSocialSciences.
    3. Claudia Goldin, 1994. "The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History," NBER Working Papers 4707, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    2. Maryam Sabreen & Deepak Kumar Behera, 2020. "Changing Structure of Rural Employment in Bihar: Issues and Challenges," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(3), pages 833-845, September.
    3. Isha Gupta, 2020. "Fertility And Mothers’ Labour Force Participation In Rural India," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0267, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".
    4. Ashapurna Baruah, 2016. "Occupational Pattern and Workforce Participation of Women in Indian Rural Punjab: A Caste Perspective," Millennial Asia, , vol. 7(2), pages 153-183, October.
    5. Deshpande, Ashwini & Singh, Jitendra, 2021. "Dropping Out, Being Pushed Out or Can’t Get in? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women," IZA Discussion Papers 14639, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Chandan Jain, 2018. "Employment in Schools in India," Review of Market Integration, India Development Foundation, vol. 10(1), pages 19-44, April.
    7. Abdullah Abdulaziz A. Bawazir & Mohamed Aslam & Ahmad Farid Bin Osman, 2020. "Demographic change and economic growth: empirical evidence from the Middle East," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 429-450, August.
    8. A. Srija & Shirke Shrinivas Vijay, 2020. "Female Labour Force Participation in India: Insights Through Time Use Survey," Review of Market Integration, India Development Foundation, vol. 12(3), pages 159-199, December.
    9. Amaresh Dubey & Wendy Olsen & Kunal Sen, 2017. "The Decline in the Labour Force Participation of Rural Women in India: Taking a Long-Run View," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(4), pages 589-612, December.
    10. Prema Basargekar & Pushpendra Singh, 2022. "An Intriguing Puzzle of Female Labour Force Participation: Comparative Study of Selected South Asian Countries," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 65(3), pages 881-895, September.
    11. Usami, Yoshifumi & Patra, Subhajit & Kapoor, Abhinav, 2018. "Measuring Female Work Participation in Rural India: What Do the Primary and Secondary Data Show?," Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, vol. 8(2), December.
    12. Ashwini Deshpande & Jitendra Singh, 2021. "Dropping Out, Being Pushed out or Can't Get In? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women," Working Papers 65, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.

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