Abstract: An interesting pattern and trajectory of development emerges from the study of the numerous aspects and nuances of Employment behaviour of Female Workers in the various Quinquennial Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) rounds of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO). The general trend which gets highlighted is that employment levels of women workers are decreasing persistently over the consecutive rounds. In view of this fact the latest Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) data published by NSSO has been explored to study the effect of socio-economic and socio-religious determinants of Female Work Force Participation Rate (FWFPR) on the labour supply decision of female workers (age 15-59 years). Working with the unit level data of the 68th (2011-12) Round of NSSO, logistic regression methods have been used, as in such cases the model does not always make distributional assumptions on the predictors which can be both continuous and discrete. Results show that socio-religious factors are more important than socio-economic factors in determining the work participation of female workers. Most important is the kind of work that women are engaged in which determines the effect of these factors.
Keywords: Gender, Employment, Rural, Landownership, Socio-religious groups, Female Work-Force Participation.
JEL Classification: J16, J21, J22, J23.
Title: Inter-Relationship of Socio-Economic and Socio-Religious Factors of Female Employment in Rural India: An Empirical Study
Author: Sanghamitra Kanjilal
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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