CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Naher Tazreen, Samira |
|---|---|
| Title | Exploring the Decline of Female Economic Participation in a Developing Economy with High Economic Growth and Surplus Supply of Labour |
| Summary | This thesis discusses a combination of possible reasons of the recent decline in women’s formal economic activities in Bangladesh as an example of a developing country with high economic growth and abundance supply of labour. It uses economic growth and development theories to trace for possible combination of economic growth determinants which rationalize this decline. It applies parts from Lewis’s and Goldin’s economic growth theories to macro-data related to women’s employment activities supporting the hypothesis that certain growth theories, when combined together, can provide rationalization and explain potential pattern for such decline. In short, the reasons rationalized are higher agricultural real-wages, declined poverty rates, lower industrial real-wages, inadequate white-collar service sector jobs, and increased female reservation-wages. The potential pattern of female economic participation (for developing states with growing economy and surplus labour supply) is then theorized to be increasing (with the presence of poverty and expansion of export-oriented feminized industries), then declining (upon the presence of the above reasons combined together), and lastly increasing again (broadly with the expansion of service sector jobs and the weakening of these reasons). In order to reverse this decline in female economic participation without any further delay, policymakers may implement measures that increase industrial real-wages and create adequate expansion of white-collar jobs. |
| Supervisor | Kahanec, Martin |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/naher-tazreen_samira.pdf |
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