Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women

Arbeitspapier

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by their earnings. We also show that there exists a significant gap in employment propensities among ethnic Kyrgyz women in consensual or arranged marriages compared to women in kidnapped-based marriages. This finding suggests that the practice of bride abduction adversely affects women's probability of employment and might have negative consequences on their economic well-being.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14133

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Economics: General ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Subject: labour supply ; women ; bride kidnapping ; Kyrgyzstan

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Arabsheibani, Reza ; Kudebayeva, Alma ; Mussurov, Altay
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232885
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET