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Table 2 Models of female labor force participation by household structure

From: Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America

 

Married or single

Family structure

Married (M)

Single (S)

Ratio M/S

Two parents (T)

Single-parent (S)

Single-person (P)

Ratio T/S

Ratio T/P

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Cyclical component

− 24.8***

(7.34)

− 8.8

(8.01)

− 23.3**

(8.04)

− 24.0***

(6.63)

− 9.9

(5.94)

− 4.9

(7.70)

− 22.6***

(5.19)

− 23.6**

(9.07)

Trend component

27.0***

(3.2)

11.1***

(3.15)

26.1***

(4.79)

26.4***

(2.80)

13.8***

(2.09)

16.2***

(3.86)

23.2***

(3.24)

19.3***

(2.89)

Observations

268

268

268

304

304

304

304

304

R-squared

0.657

0.260

0.399

0.639

0.453

0.224

0.535

0.289

 

Youngest child is

   

0–5 (G1)

6–17 (G2)

No children (NC)

Ratio G1/G2

Ratio G1/NC

(9)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(13)

Cyclical component

− 29.1***

(8.07)

− 24.0***

(6.57)

− 17.5**

(7.62)

− 15.3*

(8.55)

− 21.8*

(12.16)

Trend component

26.1***

(3.19)

27.4***

(2.51)

28.2***

(3.26)

6.1

(3.93)

5.5

(3.78)

Observations

303

303

303

303

303

R-squared

0.606

0.634

0.636

0.080

0.059

  1. Latin American countries, panel 1987–2014. Women aged 25–54
  2. Fixed effects (by country) OLS regressions. Unbalanced panel of 18 countries. Dependent variable: female labor force participation as percentage of women aged 25–54; and ratios of female LFP ratio between groups expressed in percentage. Cyclical and trend components of GDP are obtained by applying the Hodrick-Prescott filter to the log of real per capita GDP. For detailed data definitions and sources, see Table 10 in the Appendix. Robust standard errors clustered by country in parentheses. ***Significant at 1% level, **5%, *10%