Does Gender Equality in Labor Participation Bring Real Equality? Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries

• Tác giả: Federica Alfani
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 261.83 Social problems and services
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 327178
• Chủ đề: 1. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; 2. FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION; 3. GENDER EQUALITY; 4. INEQUALITY; 5. LABOR MARKET

Tóm tắt

Drawing on various macro- and micro-data sources, the authors present robust evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between female labor force participation and inequality. Overall, female labor force participation is found to have a strong and significant dis-equalizing impact in at least three groups of developing countries with relatively low initial levels of participation. A decile-level analysis shows that female labor force participation has higher levels of returns among top deciles compared with the lower deciles in the developing countries analyzed. This evidence focuses attention on the importance of developing policies specifically targeting women in lower deciles of the income distribution.