Developing Country Superwomen: Impacts of Trade Liberalisation on Female Market and Domestic Work

Fofana, Ismaël; Cockburn, John; Decaluwé, Bernard

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“…Danby (2004Danby ( , 2008; and S. Charusheela (2010). 4 Examples of these models are that of William Darity, Jr. (1995), which includes a household production function for subsistence production; the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for Bangladesh by Marzia Fontana and Adrian Wood (2000), which includes ''reproduction'' and ''leisure'' as separate economic sectors; and that of Ismaël Fofana, John Cockburn, and Bernard Decaluwé (2005), who use microsimulations to test the impact of trade reforms on women's and men's participation in paid and unpaid care work. 5 Debbie Budlender (2004) goes beyond this criticism to explain that time-use data are discursive devices.…”

Section: A Renewed Advocacy For Time-use Data Collectionmentioning

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Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?

Esquivel¹

2011

Feminist Economics

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This study takes stock of how advocacy for time-use surveys (TUS) has been framed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, which urged countries to regularly conduct TUS in order to quantify unpaid care work, and how conducive the call for action has been for the effective use of this data to inform gender-sensitive policy. Findings suggest that obstacles to progress in using time-use data to inform policy include: an overemphasis on accounting for women's unpaid work within the framework of the United Nations System of National Accounts; a neglect of a clear distributive justice agenda tied to measuring and valuing unpaid work; and inadequate design of some TUS. However, there are now signs of emerging new analytical frameworks and agendas that link time-use data collection more directly to policy. These agendas are likely to be more fruitful in promoting the use of time-use data in policymaking.

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Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?

Esquivel¹

2011

Feminist Economics

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“…Once a SAM is constructed, it can be also used as the informational basis of Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE). Recent efforts in constructing gender aware SAMs and CGEs include models for Bangladesh (Fontana and Wood 2000), Zambia (Fontana 2002), Nepal (Fofana, Cockburn and Decaluwé 2005), Pakistan (Siddiqui, 2005) and Spain (Uriel et al 2005).…”

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“…The study on Nepal by Fofana, Cockburn and Decaluwé (2005) analyses the effects of trade liberalization on male and female work. The structure of their model is similar to the one mentioned above and its contribution is principally based upon the investigation of male participation in domestic work.…”

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The Unpaid Care Work-Paid Work Connection

Antonopoulos

2008

SSRN Journal

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“…But the process remains very slow in Pakistan. The female labor force participation rate is hardly 20% and the majority of female labor force participants are unpaid family workers (Economic Survey of Pakistan 2009-2010. The very low female labor force participation rate most likely is costly in terms of economic growth.…”

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“…Their estimates for all labor indicate no response to openness, but for females alone their labor demand elasticities are higher in magnitude and significant. Fofana et al (2005) exploited the Nepal Labor Force Survey of the late 1990s and found that females are more responsive to such reforms than are males and that their leisure time declined due to their increased participation in market activities. 1 Catagay and Ozler (1995) with cross-country analysis for 165 countries, Ozler (2000) for Turkey and Nordas (2003) for five developing countries all provide estimates that support the argument that trade liberalization increases the feminization of the labor force.…”

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International trade openness and gender gaps in Pakistani labor force participation rates over 57 years

Hyder

Behrman

2012

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

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The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This paper uses historical census data since 1951 and two recent Labor Force Surveys to investigate the impact of international trade openness on gender differences in labor force participation rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these occupational categories and the unobserved factors that affect male and female labor force participation rates equally. The estimates indicate that increased international trade significantly reduces the gap between male and female labor force participation on average across all occupations. However, if responses are allowed to vary across seven broad occupational categories, the estimates suggest that the significant relative increases in female labor force participation are concentrated in agriculture and other primary occupations.

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Developing Country Superwomen: Impacts of Trade Liberalisation on Female Market and Domestic Work

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?

Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?

The Unpaid Care Work-Paid Work Connection

International trade openness and gender gaps in Pakistani labor force participation rates over 57 years

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