Do Female Gender Role Attitudes Affect Labour Market Participation in Egypt?

Sachiko Miyata, Hiroyuki Yamada

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Abstract

We analyse the inter-generational relationship of attitudes towards gender roles and their impact on individuals’ labour market participations in Egypt. We find a strong correlation between mothers’ and daughters’ perceptions of gender roles. Unlike the existing literature, perceptions are not associated with the labour market status even if we control for endogeneity issues using an instrumental variable regression. Furthermore, higher-educated females are more likely to be unemployed in Egypt. These results imply that perceptions among females are not translated into their labour market behaviour and the supply-side policies alone may not be sufficient for improving young women’s employment opportunities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)876-894
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Development Studies
Volume52
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Jun 2

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Development

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