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Petia Topalova https://isni.org/isni/0000000404811396 International Monetary Fund

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European Department

Contents

  • Abstract

  • I. Introduction

  • II. Drivers of Female Employment: An Overview of the Literature

    • A. Structural characteristics

    • B. Policies

  • III. Female Labor Force Participation and its Drivers: Stylized Facts

    • A. Female labor force participation

    • B. Structural characteristics and policies

  • IV. Data and Methodology

  • V. Empirical Results

    • A. Extensive margin

    • B. Intensive margin

  • VI. Robustness

  • VII. Conclusion

  • Tables

  • 1. Extensive Margin: Europe—Women

  • 2. Extensive Margin: Europe—Women versus Men

  • 3. Extensive Margin: Advanced and Emerging Europe—Women

  • 4. Intensive Margin: Europe—Women

  • 5. Robustness: Europe—Women

  • Figures

  • 1. Female Labor Force Participation Across the Globe

  • 2. Female Labor Force Participation in Europe

  • 3. Selected Countries: Labor Force Participation by Age and Education, 2014

  • 4. Part-Time Employment of Women

  • 5. Determinants of Labor Supply: Structural Factors

  • 6. Determinants of Labor Supply: Policies

  • 7. Decomposing the Change in the Female Employment Rate, 2002–12

  • Appendices

  • A. Data

  • B. Country Coverage

  • Appendix Tables

  • A1. Summary Statistics: Individual Attributes

  • A2. Pairwise Correlation Coefficients: Individual Characteristics

  • A3. Summary Statistics: Policies

  • A4. Pairwise Correlation Coefficients: Policies

  • B1. Country Coverage

  • Appendix Figure

  • A1. ISSP Statistics

  • References

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Individual Choice or Policies? Drivers of Female Employment in Europe
Author:
Lone Engbo Christiansen
,
Ms. Huidan Huidan Lin
,
Ms. Joana Pereira
,
Petia Topalova
, and
Ms. Rima A Turk