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Gender, Generations, and Nonfarm Participation

Year: 2003

Type: report

Abstract: This paper presents an empirical analysis of intergenerational linkages in non-farm participation with a focus on gender effects. The evidence, using survey data from Nepal, shows that the mother exerts strong influence on a daughter's employment choice: having a mother in non-farm sector raises a daughter's probability of non-farm participation by 200 percent. The effects are truly dramatic for skilled non-farm jobs; having a mother in skilled job raises daughter's probability by 1200 percent. Having a father in non-farm, on the other hand, does not have any significant effect on a son's probability of non-farm participation when the endogeneity of education and assets is corrected for by Two Stage Conditional Maximum Likelihood approach. However, a moderate positive intergenerational correlation between fathers and sons exists for skilled jobs.

Source: World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-3087

Authors: M. Shahe Emran, Misuzu Otsuka, Forhad Shilpi

Institutions: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, World Bank, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2042822904

Cites: 47

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10