Family Income and the Additional Worker Hypothesis in the U.S., Colombia and Peru

Labor force participation rates, (LFPR's), as one of the two de? terminants of size and structure of the labor force,1 should be closely studied in any diagnosis of the labor force expansion taking place in the world today. While some research has been done for developed countries [see Bowen and Long] little research has been conducted so far on the factors explaining variations and trends in LFPR's in less developed countries (LDC's) [see Bartsch and Walter 1971]. The importance of this manuscript is that it studies the additional in? come question for underdeveloped countries in light of a developed country. This has not been attempted before.2 One important question that could be raised on this subject, by economists, would be the role of differing household incomes in various countries on LFPR's. Yet to date only three known studies [see Bartsch and Walter, 1971 and forthcoming] have attempted to relate family incomes to LFPR's in LDC's. While Bowen and Long have done so for the U.S., their work did not include hard core pover? ty youth . . . those most apt to be affected by variances in household incomes

Economics · Work (physics) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

• The Economics of Labor Force Participation

  William G Bowen, T Aldrich Finegan•Economics of Labor Force…•1969

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• Family income and labour force participation rates in less developed countries

  Open Access•William H Bartsch•World Development•1973

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• The Labor Force under Changing Income and Employment

  E H Phelps Brown, Clarence D Long•Economica•1960

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