Potential Relative Income and Female Labor Market Engagement in Ecuador

A dataset exploring the relationship between women's potential relative income and their labor force participation in Ecuador. The data, created by Jorge Yepez and last updated in May 2026, is stored in a 5.5 KB XLS file. Findings suggest women's education and income levels condition their adherence to social norms like the male breadwinner hypothesis.

Use Cases

• Modeling labor force participation decisions based on relative income potential.
• Analyzing shifts towards informal or part-time work based on education level.
• Studying the interaction between household socio-economic characteristics and adherence to social norms.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• File size is 5.5 KB, indicating a focused and manageable scope for analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Jorge Yepez via figshare.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 17:36:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ecuador