Panel Data Analysis of the Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Profit Rates

Adem Elveren (), Cameron Davis () and Josh Budd ()
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Cameron Davis: Fitchburg State University, MA, USA 01420.
Josh Budd: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, USA 01003.

International Econometric Review (IER), 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 97-106

Abstract: It is expected that increasing female labor force participation (FLFP) rate, due to the gender wage gap, reduces the unit labor costs, and therefore increases profit rates. Using a dataset of 130 countries for 1990-2019, this paper shows that while FLFP increases profit share in highincome countries, it reduces in middle-income countries. However, for both middle- and highincome countries, FLFP cannot prevent the overall tendency in profit rates to decline caused by a consistent decline in output-capital ratio.

Keywords: Female labor force participation; profit rate; profit share; output-capital ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B54 C01 E24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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