Economic Reform, Structural Adjustment and Female Labor Force Participation in Buenos Aires, Argentina
研究了阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯都市区女性劳动参与率近年显著上升的原因，发现这并非源于劳动供给条件改善或就业机会多样化，而是女性为应对1991年以来结构调整政策导致的失业和就业不稳定而做出的家庭经济风险对冲行为。
Female labor force participation (LFP) has recently increased in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires in a remarkable way. This increase has been a result neither of improvements in the conditions of labor supply nor due to the diversification of the structure of occupational opportunities available for women. Using cross-sectional and panel data I show that most of the growth in female LFP can be explained as a response to increasing unemployment and job instability associated with the implementation of structural adjustment policies since 1991. I argue that more women have decided to look for work as a way to reduce households’ economic uncertainty.