Research Assistant Burçin Çakır Gündoğdu and Dr. Emre Gündoğdu attended the 2nd International Turkish and World Women's Studies Congress held in Baku
The study titled “The Impact of Women's Participation in Politics and The Labor Force on Income Inequality: The OECD Case” was presented at the conference.
The abstract of the paper is as follows;
Abstract
Women, who form the basis of families and societies, are also an important component of the sustainable functioning of the economy. Women's participation in employee/managerial positions in various business lines in economic sectors and their active participation in political processes are important factors in contributing to the reduction of income inequality. In this context, the aim of the study is to examine 22 countries selected from the OECD country group (Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States) to examine the effect of women’s participation in politics and labor force on income inequality.
The data used in the study have a cross-sectional dependence and a heterogeneous structure. In this context, in the first stage, based on the characteristics of the series, the stationarity of the series was determined with the help of CADF and CIPS test statistics, which are among the second-generation unit root tests. In the second stage, to understand the causality relationship between the series, Chudik & Pesaran (2015); Gengenbach, Urbain & Westerlund (2015); Eberhardt & Presbitero (2015) Panel Causality Analysis were applied. The findings show that there is a causal relationship between the variables. The study concluded that when the women's political participation index increases by 1%, income inequality decreases by 1.46%, and when the working (salaried) female labor force increases by 1%, income inequality decreases by 2.28%.
Keywords: Women Political Participation Index, Female Labour Force, Income Inequality
