Globalization and Gender Equality in Developing Countries

Niklas Potrafke and Heinrich Ursprung

No 2011-33, Working Paper Series of the Department of Economics, University of Konstanz from Department of Economics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: This study empirically assesses the influence of globalization on the institutional root causes of gender equality as measured by the new OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). We capture the multifaceted concept of globalization with the KOF index and its three sub-indices which measure the economic, social and political dimensions of globalization. Observing the progress of globalization for a sample of almost one hundred countries at ten year intervals starting in 1970, we find that economic and social globalization exerted a decidedly positive influence on the social institutions which underlie gender equality.

Keywords: globalization; gender equality; social institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2011-09-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-dev, nep-pol and nep-soc
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