Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?—A Comment

Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have internationally comparable wage discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-s...

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Autores principales: Schober, Thomas, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pergamon Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21857765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.001
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description Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have internationally comparable wage discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-study on gender wage discrimination and do not find any evidence that more discrimination might further economic growth—on the contrary: if anything the impact of gender inequality is negative for growth. Standing up for more gender equality—also in terms of wages—is good for equity considerations and at least not negative for growth.
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spelling pubmed-31451602011-08-19 Gender Wage Inequality and Economic Growth: Is There Really a Puzzle?—A Comment Schober, Thomas Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf World Dev Article Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be fostering investment and growth in general. While the original analysis does not have internationally comparable wage discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-study on gender wage discrimination and do not find any evidence that more discrimination might further economic growth—on the contrary: if anything the impact of gender inequality is negative for growth. Standing up for more gender equality—also in terms of wages—is good for equity considerations and at least not negative for growth. Pergamon Press 2011-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3145160/ /pubmed/21857765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.05.001 Text en © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Open Access under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) license
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