The ARDL Test of Gender Kuznets Curve for G7 Countries

Dilara Kilinc (), Esra Onater and Ibrahim Yetkiner ()
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Dilara Kilinc: Department of Economics, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir-Turkey
Esra Onater: Department of Economics, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir-Turkey

The Journal of European Theoretical and Applied Studies, 2015, vol. 3, issue 2, 37-56

Abstract: The Gender Kuznets Curve (GKC) hypothesis argues that economic development has a nonlinear effect on the female share of workers. There is, however, growing debate on the exact shape of this non-linear relationship. The aim of this paper is to test the GKC hypothesis in order to determine whether data supports a quadratic or a cubic GKC for each G7 countries in the long run. The ARDL bounds testing approach of cointegration yields evidence for the following: Canada, United Kingdom and United States have an inverted U-shaped GKC; Japan has an S-shaped GKC, France has an inverted-S shaped GKC, and Italy and Germany have no long run GKC relationship in the respective periods of countries considered. We conclude that gender equality is not a direct result of development, and therefore policy makers having a gender equalization policy need to subsidize the employment of female workers in periods of downfall

Date: 2015
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