Master’s Program in Economic Growth, Population, and Development Determinants of Female Labor Supply and Female Wage Form A Quantitative Analysis on the factors that influence Female Labor Supply and Female Wage Form in the Labor Force of the Gambia. by Rohey Jammeh
[email protected] Abstract This study investigates the factors that influence female's labor supply and their wage forms. Human capital, demographic, social, and cultural factors were used to explore their impact on female labor supply and female wage form using a multinomial logistic model. The data for this study were employed from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in the Gambia in 2013. The result indicated that women in the urban areas are more likely to be in the category working than worked in the past 12 months compared to rural women who are mostly involved in seasonal work. The result for wage form and area of resident implies that a change from rural to urban increases the person's chances of receiving wages in cash. Whiles the result for educational attainment and female labor supply implies that the chances of someone having primary education and been in seasonal work is higher than the person with no education. For education and wage form, the result implies that the chances of someone having no education and receiving in-kind wages are higher than the person with primary education. Thus, the need for government to implement targeted policies to avoid the exploitation of women in the labor force. EKHS22 Master’s Thesis (15 credits ECTS) June 2021 Supervisor: Tobias Karlsson Examiner: Malin Nilsson Word Count: 13,651 Acknowledgments Firstly, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Almighty Allah for granting me the ability and willingness to complete my final master’s thesis in the midst of a global pandemic.