abstract: 'Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and

  health equality. Favorable supplyside conditions, however, have not

  translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also

  depends on structural economic change and global macroeconomic

  conditions. In this paper, we assess the role of a variety of

  macro-level policies and structures in influencing trends in women''s

  access to high-quality jobs for a sample of 15 countries in Latin

  America over the period 1990-2018. Using micro-level data, we first

  evaluate women''s relative share of good jobs, defined in terms of

  women''s weekly earnings in an industry or occupation relative to the

  national median wage. Further, we econometrically estimate the

  association between a variety of macro-level variables and the relative

  quality of women''s jobs. Results indicate that the most significant and

  robust positive correlate of women''s relative access to good jobs is

  public social spending as a share of GDP. Other important

  macro-covariates include measures of labor market regulation, monetary

  and fiscal policy, and macroeconomic structure and global orientation,

  including financial openness. The results suggest that macro-level

  structures and policies related to globalization that hamper the

  achievement of greater gender equality can be offset by appropriately

  targeted government policies.(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd.'
affiliation: 'Arora, D (Corresponding Author), 260 Cent Campus Dr 4100, Salt Lake
  City, UT 84112 USA.

  Arora, Diksha, Univ Utah, Dept Econ, Salt Lake City, UT USA.

  Braunstein, Elissa, Colorado State Univ, Dept Econ, Ft Collins, CO USA.

  Seguino, Stephanie, Univ Vermont, Dept Econ, Burlington, VT USA.

  Arora, Diksha, 260 Cent Campus Dr 4100, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA.'
article-number: '106153'
author: Arora, Diksha and Braunstein, Elissa and Seguino, Stephanie
author-email: 'diksha.arora@economics.utah.edu

  elissa.braunstein@colostate.edu

  stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu'
author_list:
- family: Arora
  given: Diksha
- family: Braunstein
  given: Elissa
- family: Seguino
  given: Stephanie
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106153
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2022
eissn: 1873-5991
files: []
issn: 0305-750X
journal: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
keywords: 'Gender wage inequality; Gender job segregation; Latin America;

  Macroeconomic policy; Structural change'
keywords-plus: 'STRUCTURAL-CHANGE; LABOR SHARE; FEMINIZATION; INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT;

  GROWTH; IMPACT; TRADE; FINANCIALISATION; DEFEMINIZATION'
language: English
month: APR
number-of-cited-references: '66'
papis_id: 378f978a151046c013be47a3105fe92a
ref: Arora2023macroanalysis
times-cited: '1'
title: A macro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000915013200001
usage-count-last-180-days: '9'
usage-count-since-2013: '11'
volume: '164'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2023'