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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
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[Journal:] Review of Economics and Political Science (REPS) [ISSN:] 2631-3561 [Volume:] 3 [Issue:] 3/4 [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 153-175
Verlag: 
Emerald, Bingley
Zusammenfassung: 
Purpose - This paper aims to tackle an important question related to women's economic empowerment in highly patriarchal societies like Egypt. The paper discusses individual, household, wealth and location factors determining women empowerment, as measured by two dimensions: decision-making power and mobility. Design/methodology/approach - Using the "Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey" (ELMPS) 2012, a Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model was estimated to study the main economic resources and social constraints that determine women empowerment as measured by the power of women over household decisions and her freedom of movement in Egypt. Findings - Three key messages could be delivered. First, women's own economic resources as captured by her employment status are an important source of her empowerment. Second, contrary to theoretical prediction education is not playing its expected role in developing awareness and transforming ideas concerning gender roles in Egypt. Third, the importance of social local context is fundamental for Egyptian women empowerment. Originality/value - This study is an attempt to address some of the gaps in the literature for the Egyptian case, where there is a lack in rigorous studies measuring women empowerment and examining its determinates. This is done by first, tackling multiple dimension of women's empowerment, decision-making inside households and freedom of mobility. Second, using MIMIC model, which is a modeling approach that allows for studying the relations between several causes of a given latent variable, such as "Empowerment" in our case, and a number of its possible indicators, without a directly observable measure of the latent variable. Third, using the most recent set of data; the ELMPS 2012 which has a special focus on women's resources and agency that permits greater content validity of the multidimensional setup. Forth, the macro level differences in women's status are tackled through using location dummy variables. Finally, given the important correlation between wealth level and women empowerment, the paper is considered a first attempt to analyze such impact by including a variable that captures the wealth level of the woman's household as one determinant of empowerment.
Schlagwörter: 
MIMIC
Women's empowerment
Agency empowerment
Decision-making index
Mobility index
JEL: 
J12
J16
J60
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