Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production

This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation in an occupational choice model with a household sector and endogenous female labor supply. Gender gaps in workforce participation have a direct negative effect on market, while gender gaps in...

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Autores: Cuberes, David, Teignier, Marc
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palabra clave:Estudis de gènere
Estalvi
Planificació de la producció
Inversions
Mercat de treball
Gender studies
Saving
Production planning
Investments
Labor market
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spelling Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household productionCuberes, DavidTeignier, MarcEstudis de gènereEstalviPlanificació de la produccióInversionsMercat de treballGender studiesSavingProduction planningInvestmentsLabor marketThis paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation in an occupational choice model with a household sector and endogenous female labor supply. Gender gaps in workforce participation have a direct negative effect on market, while gender gaps in entrepreneurship affect negatively market output not only by reducing wages and labor force participation but also by reducing the average talent of entrepreneurs and aggregate productivity. We estimate the effects of these gender gaps for 37 European countries, as well as the United States, and find that gender gaps cause an average loss of 17.5% in market output and 13.2% in total output, which also includes household output. Interestingly, the total output loss would be similar (12%) in a model without household sector, since the market output loss is larger when the female labor supply is endogenous. Eastern Europe is the region with lowest income fall due to gender gaps, while Southern Europe is the region with the largest fall. Northern Europe is the region with the largest productivity fall, which is due to the presence of high gender gaps in entrepreneurship.De Gruyter2018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/122903Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2017-0031The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018, vol. 18, num. 1, p. 01-15https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2017-0031(c) De Gruyter, 2018info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1229032026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
title Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
spellingShingle Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
Cuberes, David
Estudis de gènere
Estalvi
Planificació de la producció
Inversions
Mercat de treball
Gender studies
Saving
Production planning
Investments
Labor market
title_short Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
title_full Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
title_fullStr Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
title_full_unstemmed Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
title_sort Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cuberes, David
Teignier, Marc
author Cuberes, David
author_facet Cuberes, David
Teignier, Marc
author_role author
author2 Teignier, Marc
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Estudis de gènere
Estalvi
Planificació de la producció
Inversions
Mercat de treball
Gender studies
Saving
Production planning
Investments
Labor market
topic Estudis de gènere
Estalvi
Planificació de la producció
Inversions
Mercat de treball
Gender studies
Saving
Production planning
Investments
Labor market
description This paper examines the quantitative effects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation in an occupational choice model with a household sector and endogenous female labor supply. Gender gaps in workforce participation have a direct negative effect on market, while gender gaps in entrepreneurship affect negatively market output not only by reducing wages and labor force participation but also by reducing the average talent of entrepreneurs and aggregate productivity. We estimate the effects of these gender gaps for 37 European countries, as well as the United States, and find that gender gaps cause an average loss of 17.5% in market output and 13.2% in total output, which also includes household output. Interestingly, the total output loss would be similar (12%) in a model without household sector, since the market output loss is larger when the female labor supply is endogenous. Eastern Europe is the region with lowest income fall due to gender gaps, while Southern Europe is the region with the largest fall. Northern Europe is the region with the largest productivity fall, which is due to the presence of high gender gaps in entrepreneurship.
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