The Costs of Exclusion

Gender Job Segregation, Structural Change and the Labour Share of Income

Bibliographic Data

ID3885162
AuthorsStephanie Seguino (0000-0002-9957-376X, corresponding author), Elissa Braunstein
Year2019
Volume50
Issue4
Pages976-1008
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dech.12462
OpenAlexW2901320121
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited21

While women's share of employment has risen in many countries over the last two decades, gender job segregation has worsened, with women increasingly excluded from 'good' jobs in the industrial sector. In this article, the determinants of gender job segregation are assessed using panel data for a broad set of developing countries covering the period 1991-2015. The effect of gender job segregation on all workers, via the labour share of income, is also analysed. The results identify two major contributors to gender job segregation - the rising capital/labour ratio and the ratio of female/male labour force participation rates - indicative of 'crowding' and exclusion as economies move up the industrial ladder. The analysis further indicates that the crowding of women into lower quality jobs has a negative effect on workers as a whole by dampening the labour share of income. Those processes are influenced by global and macroeconomic conditions and policies that have circumscribed the expansion of high-quality jobs relative to labour supply, intensifying competition for 'good' jobs and weakening labour's bargaining power

Bargaining power · Capital (architecture) · Competition (biology) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Labour economics · Labour supply · Panel data · Quality (philosophy) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

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