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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Structural change in developing countries: has it decreased gender inequality?
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Authors
  • Michelle Rendall
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Department of Economics
Number 77
ISSN 1664-7041
Number of Pages 42
Date 2012
Abstract Text This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender inequality in both wages and labor force participation.
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Keywords Structural change, job tasks, female employment, wage gap, Latin America, Asia, Strukturwandel, Entwicklungsländer, Arbeitsmarkt, Diskriminierung, Geschlecht, Gleichberechtigung