The ARDL Test of Gender Kuznets Curve for G7 Countries

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The Gender Kuznets Curve (GKC) hypothesis argues that economic development has a non-linear effect on the female share of workers. There is, however, growing debate on the exact shape of this non-linear relationship. The aim of this paper is to test the GKC hypothesis in order to determine whether data supports a quadratic or a cubic GKC for each G7 countries in the long run. The ARDL bounds testing approach of cointegration yields evidence for the following: Canada, United Kingdom and United States have an inverted U-shaped GKC; Japan has an S-shaped GKC and France has an inverted-S shaped GKC; and finally that Italy and Germany have no long run GKC relationship in the respective periods of countries considered. We conclude that gender equality is not a direct result of development, and therefore policy makers having a gender equalization policy need to subsidize the employment of female workers in periods of fall.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers in Economics ; No. 13/05

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
• Subject: Gender Kuznets Curve ; Economic Development ; ARDL

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kýlýnç, Dilara ; Onater, Esra ; Yetkiner, Hakan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Izmir University of Economics, Department of Economics
• (where): Izmir
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/175929