IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pid/journl/v14y1975i2p185-206.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Female Labour Force Participation and Fertility Desires in Pakistan.An Empirical Investigation

Author

Listed:
  • NASRA M. SHAH

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad)

Abstract

Female labour force participation as a factor affecting fertility has recently attracted considerable attention in both. developing and developed societies. It has been theorized that female work wouH-have a depressing effect on fertility because of the high opportunity cost involved in high fertility. On the other hand, it has been argued that higher family income could induce more fertility. Some of the socio-demographic reasons that determine female work status could explain differentials in fertility desires. A number of important reasons which lead women to work -can be identified: the availability of jobs, the economic 'push' from low family income, husband's attitude towards wife's work, attractiveness of the job in terms of monetary and/or psychological satisfaction, etc.

Suggested Citation

  • Nasra M. Shah, 1975. "Female Labour Force Participation and Fertility Desires in Pakistan.An Empirical Investigation," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 14(2), pages 185-206.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:14:y:1975:i:2:p:185-206
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/1975/Volume2/185-206.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Abdul Hakim, 1999. "Demographic, Socio-economic, and Regional Fertility Differentials in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 38(4), pages 643-660.
    2. Abdul Hakim, 1994. "Factors Affecting Fertility in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 33(4), pages 685-709.
    3. Naushin Mahmood, 2009. "Population and Development Demographic Research at PIDE," PIDE Books, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, number 2009:1 edited by Rashid Amjad & Aurangzeb A. Hashmi, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:14:y:1975:i:2:p:185-206. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Khurram Iqbal (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/pideipk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.