{"title":"A Brief Note on Feminization of Labor and Profit Rates","authors":"A. Elveren, C. Davis, Josh Budd","doi":"10.33818/ier.1181027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Using a novel dataset, this brief note investigates the effect of female labor force participation (FLFP) on three important variables, profit shares, profit rates, and capital-output ratio, covering a very large set of countries (i.e., 130) over a recent time period of 1990-2019. This paper shows that while FLFP increases profit share in high-income countries, it reduces in middle-income countries. However, for both middle- and high-income countries, FLFP cannot prevent the overall tendency in profit rates to decline caused by a consistent decline in output-capital ratio.","PeriodicalId":32692,"journal":{"name":"International Econometric Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Econometric Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33818/ier.1181027","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using a novel dataset, this brief note investigates the effect of female labor force participation (FLFP) on three important variables, profit shares, profit rates, and capital-output ratio, covering a very large set of countries (i.e., 130) over a recent time period of 1990-2019. This paper shows that while FLFP increases profit share in high-income countries, it reduces in middle-income countries. However, for both middle- and high-income countries, FLFP cannot prevent the overall tendency in profit rates to decline caused by a consistent decline in output-capital ratio.