What’s Driving Labor Force Participation Among Women?

RePEc Short ID: ppe260
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2216-110X

Baskar Prabhakar, Deepika; Considine, Sabrina J.; Miskanic, Brandon E.; Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas

Journal Article

What’s Driving Labor Force Participation Among Women?

Abstract: A substantial and unexpected rise in women’s labor force participation rates over the past few years has been a key factor spurring rapid labor force growth. In particular, Hispanic women have made a disproportionately large contribution to post-pandemic growth in prime-age women’s participation rates. Analysis shows that this group’s increase was driven by both a rise in labor market participation over the life cycle within generational cohorts and notably higher participation rates among younger generations than older generations’ participation when they were the same age.

Keywords: labor force participation; Hispanics; women; Women - Education;