Labor Market Shocks and Youths' Time Allocation in Egypt

Where Does Women's Empowerment Come In

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4360596
AutoresMarion Dovis (Aix-Marseille Université), Patricia Augier (Aix-Marseille Université), Clémentine Sadania (University of Mannheim)
Ano2021
Volume69
Fascículo4
Páginas1501-1540
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/705713
OpenAlexW2965550834
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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