http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/workforce Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 29 May 2026 15:29:22 -0400 Fri, 29 May 2026 15:29:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/765/an-econometric-analysis-of-the-backward-bending-labor-supply-of-canadian-women By Adib J. Rahman - Although there have been a few studies on the women’s labor supply in both developed and developing countries, there are no recent studies as of 2009 that focus on the “backward-bending” labor supply of Canadian women. While some studies have focused on labor supply and its elasticities by considering the aspect of poverty in the labor supply analysis (El-Hamidi 2003, Sharif 1991, Dasgupta & Goldar 2005), and others have focused on testing the hypotheses advanced by the Nakamuras (1981) of finding a backward-bending supply curve for females similar to that of males (Robinson... Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:23 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/765/an-econometric-analysis-of-the-backward-bending-labor-supply-of-canadian-women