Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
By Christine Binzel, R. Assaad. Social Science Research Network, 2011
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Female labour force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labour market and/or to increase their labour supply. In line with previous studies, we find a decrease in wage work particularly in urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to women in non-migrant households. Furthermore, we find evidence that this labour supply response is driven by the household's need to replace the migrant's labour rather than by a loosening of a financing constraint on family enterprises made possible by the flow of remittances.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? (2014, unknown): “…supply (Posso 2 This strand includes Kozel and Alderman (1990); Gorlich et al. (2007); Shonkwiler et al. (2008); Lokshin and Glinskaya (2009); Cox-Edwards and Rodriguez-Oreggia (2009); Jadotte (2009); Binzel and Assaad (2011); Antman (2012); Powers and Wang (2012); Clemens and Tiongson (2012).”
- The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind (2012, background): “If bargaining power is rooted in relative income shares of household members, male migration may result in a loss in bargaining power for women through its effects on labor supplied outside the home, as hypothesized in Binzel and Assaad (2011).”
- Bringing It All Back Home – Return Migration and Fertility Choices (2015, background): “limit their participation on the labor market (Binzel and Assaad, 2011) and increase the number of children that they have.”