The Rise in Female Participation in Colombia: Children, Education or Marital Status

Colombia has experienced a secular increase in female labor participation, which passed from nearly 47% in 1984 to 65% in 2006. We decompose the evolution of participation into changes in the composition of the population and changes in the participation rates by groups (defined according to the var...

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Main Authors: Amador, Diego, Bernal, Raquel, Peña, Ximena
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9234

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