Working women and per capita household consumption expenditures; an untouched reality

Wen Jun (), Junaid Waheed (), Hadi Hussain (), Ihsan Jamil (), Denisa Borbášová () and Muhammad Khalid Anser ()
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Wen Jun: Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, Xian, 710000, China
Junaid Waheed: Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, Xian, 710000, China
Hadi Hussain: Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, Xian, 710000, China
Ihsan Jamil: Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, Xian, 710000, China
Denisa Borbášová: Xain Jiaotong University, School of Management, Xian, 710000, China
Muhammad Khalid Anser: School of Management, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Beilin, China

Zbornik radova Ekonomskog fakulteta u Rijeci/Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics, 2020, vol. 38, issue 1, 35-69

Abstract: Working women have more compulsive buying tendencies which can lead to a significant increase in their household consumption expenditures. This study investigates the effects of changes in the number of working women on household per capita consumption. We test the hypothesis that changes in the number of working women have a discernible impact on household final per capita consumption expenditures, due to their differing consumption propensities, by doing an empirical analysis based on panel data set of 36 OECD economies within the period 2000-2016. The results indicate that changes in the number of working women increase the household per capita consumption expenditures. The result also implies that age plays a significant role in working women consumption decision making and may lead to significant differences in aggregate consumption expenditure. These findings suggest the importance of understanding changes in the number of working women in planning for aggregate consumption mobilization and in the formulation of aggregate growth policies.

Keywords: working women buying behavior; household per capita consumption expenditures; GDP growth; empirical study; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D91 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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