Gender and informal sector analysis in India: Economy wide approaches

Arbeitspapier

The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social accounting matrix (SAM) and general equilibrium models such as the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models including as a special case the fixed price multiplier (FPM) models. In particular, economy wide modelling of gender and the informal sector is facilitated by the use of national level data and constructing the base data set as an SAM. Another important strategy is to conceptualize the economy within gender structures, entailing the recognition of gender relations as an intervening variable in all economic activities.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-115-6
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2008/65

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models ; Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: general equilibrium ; informal sector ; gender ; Informeller Sektor ; Geschlecht ; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht ; CGE-Modelling ; Social Accounting Matrix ; Indien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sinha, Anushree ; Khan, Haider A.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45151
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