Female Labour Force Participation in Arab Countries: The Role of Identity
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Keywords
Female labour market participation; Arab region; Islam; Identity; Religion;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ARA-2012-11-11 (MENA - Middle East and North Africa)
- NEP-DEM-2012-11-11 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2012-11-11 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2012-11-11 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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