Gender policy and female employment: a CGE model for Italy

Francesca Severini, Francesco Felici, Noemi Ferracuti, Rosita Pretaroli and Claudio Socci

Economic Systems Research, 2019, vol. 31, issue 1, 92-113

Abstract: The gender integration in all areas of policy choices and at all stages of the decision-making process is strongly recommended by the European Union and represents an achievement that the Member States should accomplish when implementing policy measures. In a country like Italy, where the level of female labour participation is among the lowest in Europe, policy maker decisions should encourage and stimulate the demand for female labour without neglecting the global employment rate and income growth. The multisectoral analysis offers the possibility to bridge gender disaggregation within income formation and distribution from the production phase to the demand formation. In this perspective, this paper develops a gender-aware CGE model based on the gender-aware SAM for the Italian economy to evaluate the impact of different fiscal policies aimed to reduce female labour cost and trigger woman hiring in those sectors with high gender disparity.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2018.1431612

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