Question

Role of female labour force participation in rural poverty

Answer 1

, a decline in participation of female labour force is observed. ... half of the rural male LFPR, while in the urban areas, the ...... The u-shaped female labour force function in.

Answer 2

Explanation:

This paper examines the role of female labour force participation in combination with the other important factors such as relative prices, productivity per hectare and per worker, unemployment, distribution of operational holdings, etc., in explaining the inter-state variations in rural poverty. The paper locates various inter-linkages while examining the relationships of the important factors with the rural poverty, real agricultural wages separately for male and female, non-farm employment. The regression coefficients along with the decomposition analysis of the changes in female labour force participation over the period provide several policy implications for further reducing the rural poverty in the country.