The differential impact of economic crisis on men and women, and its connection to intrahousehold bargaining

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This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating the effect of district consumption shock during the crisis on changes in men's and women's working status and assets. I found that in rural areas there seems to be no effect of district consumption shock. In urban areas the fall in district consumption increases women's employment and decreases men's non-business assets. The effect is both cases is large. I also found that intra-household bargaining may be related to the effect of crises on men and women. Specifically, women who have sole decision-making power on employment prior to the crisis do not need to increase employment as much as a response to the fall in district consumption compared with women without sole decision-making power on employment prior to the crisis.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-360-8
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2017/134

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles
• Subject: economic crisis ; coping strategies ; gender ; intra-household decision-making ; Indonesia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dong, Sarah Xue
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2017/360-8
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/189979
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET