Labor Market Shocks and Youths' Time Allocation in Egypt

Where Does Women's Empowerment Come In

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4360596
AutoresMarion Dovis (Aix-Marseille Université), Patricia Augier (Aix-Marseille Université), Clémentine Sadania (University of Mannheim)
Año2021
Volumen69
Número4
Páginas1501-1540
Fecha de publicación2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/705713
OpenAlexW2965550834
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas43

This paper investigates how large shocks on the Egyptian labor market following the 2011 uprising impacted youths’ time allocation. We estimate the effects of reported changes in the father’s working conditions on youths’ work participation and school enrollment in bivariate probit models, using the 2012 round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey. Our contribution lies in exploring the association between mother’s empowerment and shock transmission. We find that reported positive changes reduce daughters’ participation in intensive domestic work but only when the mother has a high level of bargaining power. This suggests that a woman’s say in household decisions can affect the reallocation of resources following a change in the family income

Affect (linguistics) · Bargaining power · Bivariate analysis · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Multivariate probit model · Panel data · Panel survey · Probit · Shock (circulatory) · Time allocation · Women's empowerment · Work (physics) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology