Thesis (Ph. D.)--The American University, 1994.
All types of inequality are not created equal: divergent impacts of inequality on economic growth
Evidence of an increase in inequality since the 1970s has motivated research on its relationship to growth and development. The findings of that research are contradictory and inconclusive. One...
"All Types of Inequality are Not Created Equal: Divergent Impacts of Inequality on Economic Growth"
Evidence of an increase in various forms of inequality since the 1970s has motivated research on its relationship to growth and development. The findings of that research are contradictory and...
"Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World"
Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender...
"Is More Mobility Good? Firm Mobility and the Low Wage -- Low Productivity Trap"
This paper explores the possibility that unregulated FDI flows are causally implicated in the decline in labor productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to...
"Feminist-Kaleckian Macroeconomic Policy for Developing Countries"
Stephanie Seguino, Caren A. Grown
This paper reviews evidence of the gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity. The evidence suggests...
Blecker, Robert A, Seguino, Stephanie
The paper presents two short-run, structuralist models of an export-oriented, two-sector, semi-industrialized economy in which women workers are concentrated in export production. The first model...
Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender...
PlusÇa Change? evidence on global trends in gender norms and stereotypes
Gender norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequality are deeply embedded in social and individual consciousness and, as a result, are resistant to change. Gender stratification theories propose...
Is More Mobility Good? Firm Mobility and the Low Wage-Low Productivity Trap
This paper explores the possibility that unregulated FDI flows are causally implicated in the decline in labor productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to...
Does Gender have any Effect on Aggregate Saving? An empirical analysis
STEPHANIE SEGUINO, MARIA SAGRARIO FLORO
This study investigates the effects of gender on aggregate saving. We test the hypothesis that shifts in women's relative income, which can affect their bargaining power within the household, have a...
To Work or Not to Work: Is That the Right Question?
Seguino, Stephanie, Butler, Sandra S
This paper applies thematic analysis to survey data obtained from a sample of AFDC recipients to investigate the complexities of single-parent decision-making in low-income households. A basic needs...
Gender and cooperative behavior: economic man rides alone
Stephanie Seguino, Thomas Stevens, Mark Lutz
Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of...
Accounting for Gender in Asian Economic Growth
Absent from the important debate on the determinants of rapid Asian growth is the role of gender inequality. This paper argues that gender wage inequality has stimulated growth, with Asian economies...
This paper investigates the sources of divergent trends in gender wage differentials in two important newly industrialised economies (NIEs), South Korean and Taiwan. As these economies have entered...
Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments
An unresolved debate in the development literature concerns the impact of gender inequality on economic growth. Previous studies have found that the effect depends on the time frame (short or long...
Why are women in the Caribbean so much more likely than men to be unemployed?
Caribbean women are more likely than men to be unemployed, as evidenced by the economies studied here—Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. This paper uses aggregate data to explore...
The Road to Gender Equality: Global Trends and the Way Forward
International organizations have expressed widespread agreement that gender equality is an important social and economic goal. Well-being is a multidimensional measure of material status and...
The Investment Function Revisited: Disciplining Capital in Korea
Post-Keynesian and Marxian macro models assume that wage increases that lower profits have an adverse impact on investment spending. The experience of Korea during the period 1975-1993 contradicts...
Gender effects on aggregate saving: A theoretical and empirical analysis
Floro, Maria, Seguino, Stephanie
This study investigates the hypothesis that shifts in women’s relative income, which affects their bargaining power in the household, have discernible effects on aggregate saving due to differing...
Gender, quality of life, and growth in Asia 1970 to 1990
This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries...
Taking gender differences in bargaining power seriously: Equity, labor standards, and living wages.
Expanding women’s outside options, including paid work at living wages, is a mechanism for improving their well-being. But in developing countries, the dual phenomenon of women’s segregation in...
The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress...
The Investment Function Revisited: Disciplining Capital in Korea
Post-Keynesian and Marxian macro models assume that wage increases that lower profits have an adverse impact on investment spending. The experience of Korea during the period 1975-1993 contradicts...
Gender equity and globalization: Macroeconomic policy for developing countries
Seguino, Stephanie, Grown, Caren
This paper reviews the evidence of gender effects of globalization in developing economies. It then outlines a set of macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity in the distribution of...