Female Labor Force Participation and Labor-Saving Gadgets

• Main Author: GUHA, Brishti
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Labour-saving gadgets; migration; female labour force participation; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/420
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We show under what conditions women would migrate out of the household sector into formal sector jobs, in response to increased ability to use labour saving household gadgets, which raise the productivity of female labour engaged in household tasks. We model a small open economy with three outputs:...