Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175926 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics No. 13/02
Publisher: 
Izmir University of Economics, Department of Economics, Izmir
Abstract: 
This work studies the role of gender on economic convergence in a standard convergence model expanded by gender shares of labor force. The theoretical part of the paper shows the positive role of gender on economic growth. Next, the paper presents 5-year span panel data tests of the contribution of the female share in employment on economic growth for 34 OECD countries in the period 1951-2010. We find that an increase in the share of women has a positive contribution to economic convergence across OECD countries. In addition to this, we also show that there is a U-shaped curvilinear relationship between gender equality and economic growth for OECD countries in the period 1951-2010. We conjecture that this result coincides with the 'S-shaped' Kuznets Curve of Gender hypothesis.
Subjects: 
Gender
Income Convergence
Economic Growth
Kuznets Curve of Gender
JEL: 
J16
O47
O50
C23
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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