Essays on Inequality and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries

This book is a collection of three essays contributing to the empirical literature on inequality and female labor force participation in developing countries. The first essay is an extension to the analysis of benefit incidence of public expenditures. Using data for Kenya it shows how different household needs for government services ought to be incorporated into the analysis to get an improved understanding of the distributional implications of public spending. The second essay revisits the hypothesis that female labor force participation follows a U-shaped trend over the course of economic development and suggests an innovative approach to explore the effect of structural change on women's economic activity. The third essay investigates the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on female labor force participation. It shows that trade reforms led to an increase in women's labor force participation and employment after a period of two years, which appears to be related to labor reallocations across sectors as well as to greater labor market insecurity and male unemployment.

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• Title: Essays on Inequality and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries
• Author: Dr. Isis Gaddis
• Edition: 1st edition
• University: Georg-August University of Göttingen
• Published: 1st edition 12/31/2012
• Subject: Economics
• Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
• Product type: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Binding: Softcover (paperback)
• Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
• Scope: 169 pages
• Condition: New (wrapped in foil)
• Keywords: Poverty reduction, benefit incidence, education, Brazil, demography, demography, economic development, education, income distribution, empirical research, female labor force participation, gender inequality, gender-specific inequality, trade liberalization, income distribution, inequality, incidence analysis, Kenya, Panel Data, Political Measures, Poverty Reduction, Public Policy, Public Spending, Structural Change, Structural Change, Trade Liberalization, Inequality, Female Labor Participation, Economic Development, Public Spending

Author

Isis Gaddis is an Economist with the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management team in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Before she was a research associate with the Development Economics Research Group of the University of Göttingen in Germany, where she completed a Ph.D. in Economics in 2012. Her research interests are in the fields of labor economics, poverty and inequality analysis and public service delivery. She previously also worked as a consultant for development agencies in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Egypt, primarily in the fields of poverty and welfare measurement, labor market policy, fiscal policy and statistical development. She further holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Göttingen and has studied geographic information systems at Lund University in Sweden.

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