TY - JOUR
T1 - Do Female Gender Role Attitudes Affect Labour Market Participation in Egypt?
AU - Miyata, Sachiko
AU - Yamada, Hiroyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/6/2
Y1 - 2016/6/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2015.1113262
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2015.1113262
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84974604322
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 52
SP - 876
EP - 894
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
IS - 6
ER -