Female incumbent labour force
📍1 pp increase in share of repatriates ➡️ 1.6 pp decline in natives’ labour force participation
đź“Ťfemales move to inactivity (or to informal/family based labour)
đź“Ťfemales bear a larger burden of the shock
📍1 pp increase in share of repatriates ➡️ 1.6 pp decline in natives’ labour force participation
đź“Ťfemales move to inactivity (or to informal/family based labour)
đź“Ťfemales bear a larger burden of the shock
Comments
đź“Ťrepatriates self-select into higher-wage sectors (compatible w/ being more educated)
đź“Ťsector x region wage growth 1973-80 negatively affected by shock
đź“Ťsuggestive evidence of decrease in gender wage gap that drove females out of labour mk