Economic Reform, Structural Adjustment and Female Labor Force Participation in Buenos Aires, Argentina
By Marcela Cerrutti. 2000
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Female labor force participation (LFP) has recently increased in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires in a remarkable way. This increase has been a result neither of improvements in the conditions of labor supply nor due to the diversification of the structure of occupational opportunities available for women. Using cross-sectional and panel data, I show that most of the growth in female LFP can be explained as a response to increasing unemployment and job instability associated with the implementation of structural adjustment policies since 1991. I argue that more women have decided to look for work as a way to reduce households' economic uncertainty.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Constrained Geographical Mobility and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes Under Structural Adjustment: Evidence from Egypt (2005, background): “periods of crisis and structural adjustment (Standing 1989; Moser 1992; Waylen 1992, Beneria 1992; Safa 1999; Cerruti 2000).”
- Women ’ s economic empowerment and inclusive growth : labour markets and enterprise development (2012, background): “For instance, studies from Argentina by Cerrutti (2000) and Mexico by Parrada and Zenteno (2001) respectively found evidence of a gender-specific added worker effect, particularly among poorer households, and households with unstable male employment in the case of Argentina.”