01822nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100007800060245007500138260004500213300003600258520110600294650007701400773004501477906001201522942000701534952011101541 c524706d524706240111b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d aMukherjee, Tista Mukhopadhyay, Ishita and Bhattacharya, Sukanta 948007 aIntergenerational co-residence and women’s employment in urban India aThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics  a66(3), Jul-Sep, 2023: p.911-931 aRe-emerging joint families and declining female labour force participation rates (FLFPR) are the two paradoxical consequences of India’s steady urbanisation over the past few decades. In this backdrop, our study is motivated to examine the causal link between intergenerational co-residence and married women’s employment status in urban India. Exploiting housing affordability in the locality as an instrument for co-residence with in-laws, we find significant negative impact of such traditional but still relevant social institution on women’s labour force participation. We identify access to pooled financial resources and lack of decision-making authority relating to work participation as the key drivers of this phenomenon. However, co-residence does not act as a barrier to women’s work in families characterised by lower economic status. Public policies encouraging family nuclearisation are to accelerate the process of household transformation which in turn would promote women’s work in urban India. – Reproduced https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41027-023-00456-3  aIntergenerational co-residence, Women’s employment, Urban India948008 aThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics  aLABOURS cAR 00102ddc40709399755aIIPAbIIPAd2024-01-11h66(3), Jul-Sep, 2023: p.911-931pAR130527r2024-01-11yAR