Do Women Have Different Labor Supply Behaviors? Evidence Based on Educational Groups in Uruguay.
This study uses Uruguay’s historical fluctuation in real wages to set up a natural experiment to measure the relation between women’s labor supply and wages. Using data from the Continuous Household Surveys of the Uruguayan National Statistics Institute, for 1986–2010, it aims to identify and explai...
| Published in: | Feminist Economics Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 143 - 170 |
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