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T1 Female Labor Supply in Latin America and the Business Cycle: Instability and Asymmetry
A1 Maridueña‐Larrea, Ángel
A1 Martín Román, Ángel Luis
K1 Business cycle
K1 Female Labor Supply
AB This study measures the responsiveness of female labor supply at the extensive margin to business cycle changes in Latin America. The results provide new evidence on the stability and cyclical asymmetry of the traditional added and discouraged worker effects (i.e., AWE and DWE, respectively). It is shown that these effects are not stable and react differently to business cycle variations and even strengthen from a certain threshold. The estimated cross-country and through-time differences in the AWE and DWE, and in their counterparts in the expansionary cyclical phases, that is, the subtracted and encouraged worker effects (i.e., SWE and EWE, respectively) have direct implications for the design of economic policies, particularly those aiming at reducing gender differences in labor force participation in a region in which female workers are still underrepresented.
PB Blackwell Publishers
SN 1363-6669
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76251
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76251
LA spa
NO Review of Development Economics, 2025
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 07-jul-2025