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Labor force participation of women left behind in Tajikistan

This paper examines the impact of male migration on the labor force participation of the women left behind in Tajikistan. Studies from many countries show that when men migrate, female labor force participation decreases and this is largely explained by the income effect from remittances. Our study challenges this finding. Using panel data from 2007, 2009 and 2011, we find that, in Tajikistan, migration has no significant effect on the number of hours that women work. We use panel data which allow us to control for unobservable heterogeneity, rather than the cross-sectional data used by others. We analyze several countervailing factors that may have neutralized the income effect, such as the need to substitute for the missing labor in the household. We also find that women work more when the household has a farm, regardless of the presence of a migrant in the household.

Title Labor force participation of women left behind in Tajikistan
Author
  • Sophia Kan
  • R. Emre Aytimur
Published in Oxford Development Studies, 47(1), 1-28
Publication Date 12/06/2018
Thematic AreaGender and Employment
Project Gender and Employment in Central Asia
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