Economic Reforms and Gender-based Wage Inequality in the Presence of Factor Market Distortions

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit and Roychowdhury, Somasree (2014): Economic Reforms and Gender-based Wage Inequality in the Presence of Factor Market Distortions.

Abstract

A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and tariff reform produce favourable effects on the wage inequality while the liberalized investment policy becomes counterproductive. These results have important policy implications for a small open developing economy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Male labour, female labour, gender wage inequality, labour market distortion, credit market distortion, economic reforms, general equilibrium
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D50 - General; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F21 - International Investment ; Long-Term Capital Movements; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J18 - Public Policy; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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