Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries
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Keywords
allocation du temps; child care; dépenses publiques; economics of gender; efficience; efficiency; emploi à temps partiel; fiscal policies and behaviour of households; force de travail et emploi; garde d'enfants; government expenditure; labour force and employment; offre de travail; optimal taxation; partage du travail; politiques publiques et comportement des ménages; size and structure; taille et structure; taxation optimale; time allocation and labour supply (part-time employment; work sharing); économie de l'égalité des sexes;JEL classification:
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2004-01-25 (All new papers)
- NEP-LAB-2004-01-25 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2004-01-25 (Public Economics)
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