%0 Report
        %A Binzel, Christine
%A Assaad, Ragui
        %T Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5589
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5589
        %X Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their labor supply. In line with previous studies, we find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to women in non-migrant households. Furthermore, we find evidence that this labor supply response is driven by the household’s need to replace the migrant's labor rather than by a loosening of a financing constraint on family enterprises made possible by the flow of remittances.
        %K labor supply
%K remittances
%K migration
%K gender