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Synthesizing feminist and post-Keynesian/Kaleckian economics for a purple-green-red transition
Onaran, Özlem; Oyvat, Cem - In: European journal of economics and economic policies : … 20 (2023) 2, pp. 317-337
The aim of this article is to discuss why we should synthesize feminist and post-Keynesian/Kaleckian economics. We answer three related questions. Why does post-Keynesian economics need feminist economics? Why does feminist economics need post-Keynesian macroeconomics? Finally, what is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433732
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A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal
Malta, Vivian - 2019
Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period … employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their … increased in female-to-male employment ratio and (ii) the rest can be explained by a decline in the discrimination against women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858383
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456513
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do Minh - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534612
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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do Minh - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557664
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Taxes and market hours: The role of gender and skill
Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fang, Lei; Ngai, Rachel - 2017
Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030260
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Gender and the Job Guarantee : The Impact of Argentina's Jefes Program on Female Heads of Poor Households
Tcherneva, Pavlina R.; Wray, L. Randall - 2008
policy-makers. This paper reports on an evaluation by the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability of the program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224706
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Taxes and Market Hours : The Role of Gender and Skill
Duval-Hernández, Robert - 2017
Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 OECD countries are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model explains a substantial fraction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947137
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What Do Poor Women Want? Public Employment or Cash Transfers? Lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often …, and that a policy such as the JG or the ELR cannot only guarantees full employment and macroeconomic stabilization, but it … reproduce gender disparities. These transformative features of public employment policies are elucidated by turning to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111270
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What do poor women want? : public employment or cash transfers? ; lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The literature on public employment policies such as the job guarantee (JG) and the employer of last resort (ELR) often …, and that a policy such as the JG or the ELR cannot only guarantees full employment and macroeconomic stabilization, but it … reproduce gender disparities. These transformative features of public employment policies are elucidated by turning to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485786