Female labor force participation in five selected MENA countries: An age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)

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This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel analysis using age-period-cohort (APC) methodology and decompose FLFP rates into age, period and cohort effects. We present our results with Hanoch-Honig/Deaton-Paxson normalization and maximum entropy estimation approaches to the APC methodology in order to observe robustness of our results. We first study the aggregate FLFP and note the differentials in age, period and cohort effects across the countries we consider.The analysis is carried also out by rural/urban regional differentiation, marital status and educational attainment. Implications of our results for possible government policies to increase FLFP rates are discussed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 2020/1

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
• Subject: Female labor force participation ; synthetic panel analysis ; life-cycle profiles ; period effects ; cohort effects ; MENA countries

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lassassi, Moundir ; Tansel, Aysit
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Turkish Economic Association
• (where): Ankara
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/274081
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET