From a55a9921e3511a41c92a543df6f26532dee5a802 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marty Oehme Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:29:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] feat(data): Extract Rendall2013 --- 02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib | 2 +- 02-data/processed/relevant/Rendall2013.yml | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 02-data/supplementary/lib.bib | 2 +- scoping_review.qmd | 9 ++++ 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 02-data/processed/relevant/Rendall2013.yml diff --git a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib index 9c9a88e..61a0b63 100644 --- a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib +++ b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib @@ -11395,7 +11395,7 @@ barrier/facilitators: self-advocacy, support of employer and community, amount o usage-count-last-180-days = {2}, usage-count-since-2013 = {31}, web-of-science-categories = {Development Studies; Economics}, - keywords = {country::Brazil,country::India,country::Mexico,country::Thailand,december,inequality::gender,relevant,TODO::full-text}, + keywords = {country::Brazil,country::India,country::Mexico,country::Thailand,done::extracted,inequality::gender,relevant}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/IHESEWL2/Rendall_2013_Structural change in developing countries.pdf} } diff --git a/02-data/processed/relevant/Rendall2013.yml b/02-data/processed/relevant/Rendall2013.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2d0d20 --- /dev/null +++ b/02-data/processed/relevant/Rendall2013.yml @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +author: Rendall, M. +year: 2013 +title: "Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?" +publisher: World Development +uri: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.10.005 +pubtype: article +discipline: development + +country: Brazil; Mexico; India; Thailand +period: 1987-2008 +maxlength: +targeting: implicit +group: women +data: WB Household Survey; IPUMS USA/International/CPS + +design: quasi-experimental +method: comparative +sample: ~200_000 +unit: individual +representativeness: +causal: # 0 correlation / 1 causal + +theory: capital displacing production brawn (Galor & Weil 1996) +limitations: +observation: + - intervention: structural + institutional: 0 + structural: 1 + agency: 0 + inequality: gender; income + type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal + indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative + measures: female employment shares + findings: all countries decreased brawn requirements (smallest change in India, 0.2ppts; largest in Thailand 15ppts); decreased labour market gender inequality in Brazil; largest steady LM inequality in India; mixed results for Mexico and Thailand + channels: reduced requirement for physical labour (switching 'brawn' to 'brain'); switching to e.g. service-oriented labour + direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos + significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg + - intervention: structural + institutional: 0 + structural: 1 + agency: 0 + inequality: gender; income + type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal + indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative + measures: female wage shares + findings: Brazil closed wage gap the fastest, though widened more recently; Thailand/India mixed results + channels: reduced returns on brain intensive occupations in Brazil; different LM skill structure in Thailand/India, context dependency of structural changes + direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos + significance: 1 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg + +notes: +annotation: | + A cross-country analysis on the impacts of structural changes in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and India from 1987 to 2008, and its effects on female labour market participation and the gender wage gap. + Basing its analysis on the theory of capital displacing brawn in production for transition economies, it finds that all countries had reduced brawn requirements over time, though with large heterogeneity: Thailand lead the change with 15 percentage points while India had the smallest change with 0.2 percentage points. + Following this, there was the largest steady labour market participation inequality in India, while there were mixed results for Mexico and Thailand, with Brazil having female employment shares changes similar to that of the United States. + The channels here are seen as a reduced requirement for physical labour replaced by for example more service-oriented economies ('brawn' to 'brain'). + For female wage shares, in Brazil the wage gap closed most rapidly, though it began widening in 2005, while Thailand and India had converging but mixed changes. + In Mexico, while the gap widened during the 1990s, it began closing again afterwards. + The differences in wage gap effects compared to both other countries and the respective country's physical labour market requirements show that contextual structural changes played a large role in each case: + with erstwhile reduced returns on Brazilian returns for brain intensive occupations, the introduction of a female-lead manufacturing sector in Mexico in the 90s, and widely diverging basic labour market skill structures in Thailand and India necessitating subsistence-oriented participation; the results show impacts of structural changes, though limited through a variety of mediating factors influencing each case. + diff --git a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib index c28d22e..6502b68 100644 --- a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib +++ b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib @@ -11849,7 +11849,7 @@ migration.}, usage-count-last-180-days = {2}, usage-count-since-2013 = {31}, web-of-science-categories = {Development Studies; Economics}, - keywords = {country::Brazil,country::India,country::Mexico,country::Thailand,december,inequality::gender,relevant,TODO::full-text}, + keywords = {country::Brazil,country::India,country::Mexico,country::Thailand,done::extracted,inequality::gender,relevant}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/IHESEWL2/Rendall_2013_Structural change in developing countries.pdf} } diff --git a/scoping_review.qmd b/scoping_review.qmd index 9ce6270..5af4676 100644 --- a/scoping_review.qmd +++ b/scoping_review.qmd @@ -860,6 +860,15 @@ On the other hand, income inequality is seen to increase for most sectors over t The primary channels for this change are increased wage differences --- especially the increased wages for managers, professionals and technicians, as well as increased differences between urban workers --- and low-income households being more dependent on private or government transfers, which do not increase with trade liberalization. +@Rendall2013 undertake a cross-country analysis on the impacts of structural changes in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and India from 1987 to 2008, and its effects on female labour market participation and the gender wage gap. +Basing its analysis on the theory of capital displacing brawn in production for transition economies, it finds that all countries had reduced brawn requirements over time, though with large heterogeneity: Thailand lead the change with 15 percentage points while India had the smallest change with 0.2 percentage points. +Following this, there was the largest steady labour market participation inequality in India, while there were mixed results for Mexico and Thailand, with Brazil having female employment shares changes similar to that of the United States. +The channels here are seen as a reduced requirement for physical labour replaced by for example more service-oriented economies ('brawn' to 'brain'). +For female wage shares, in Brazil the wage gap closed most rapidly, though it began widening in 2005, while Thailand and India had converging but mixed changes. +In Mexico, while the gap widened during the 1990s, it began closing again afterwards. +The differences in wage gap effects compared to both other countries and the respective country's physical labour market requirements show that contextual structural changes played a large role in each case: +with erstwhile reduced returns on Brazilian returns for brain intensive occupations, the introduction of a female-lead manufacturing sector in Mexico in the 90s, and widely diverging basic labour market skill structures in Thailand and India necessitating subsistence-oriented participation; the results show impacts of structural changes, though limited through a variety of mediating factors influencing each case. + ## Diversity {{++ TODO: Subsume under individual other intervention types? ++}}