Causality Between Female Fertility and Female Labour Force Participation in Asean-5

Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu; Majid, Mazlan; Loganathan, Nanthakumar; Devadason, Evelyn S.

doi:10.22452/jati.vol23no1.3

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“…Therefore, for sub-Saharan Africa's GDP to increase, female labour has to postpone child birth so that the women can be integrated into the various sectors like agriculture, industrial and service sectors so as to contribute to the overall GDP. The inverse relationship result of fertility rate is consistent with the work of Subramaniam et al (2015) and Mishra and Smyth (2010) who found an inverse relationship between fertility rate and female labour force participation.…”

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“…The empirical findings did not support the U-shaped hypothesis, rather revealed no significant relationship between economic growth and FLFPRs. Subramaniam et al (2015) and Mishra and Smyth (2010) in their study, observed an inverse connection between fertility rate and female workforce participation among 28 JBSED OECD and ASEAN countries. Idowu and Owoeye (2019) employ seemingly unrelated regression (SUREG) including control variables such as female education, fertility and manufacturing growth rate for geographically sub-grouped 20 African countries, and they suggest that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship.…”

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Female labour force participation rate and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: “a liability or an asset”

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PurposeThis paper aimed examining the contribution of female labour force participation rate on economic growth in the sub-Saharan Africa during the period of 1991–2019.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a sample of 42 sub-Sahara African countries using annual data from the World Bank development indicators. The long-run causal effect of female labour force and economic growth was analysed using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model and Granger causality test for causality and direction since the variables did not have the same order of integration.FindingsThe estimated results indicate that a long-run causal relationship exists between female labour force and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa and the direction of causality is unidirectional running from economic growth to female labour force. The results also showed that female labour force participation rate negatively and significantly contributes to economic growth (GDP) is sub-Saharan Africa in the long run with an insignificantly negative contribution in the short run hence a liability.Research limitations/implicationsThe author recommends the promotion of women's economic empowerment to encourage female labour force participation to increase economic growth in the entire sub-Saharan region.Practical implicationsThis paper adds to existing literature by using more comprehensive and up to econometric analysis and variables. This paper also makes further recommendation on how female labour force participation can boost economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).Originality/valueThis paper adds to existing literature by using more comprehensive and up to econometric analysis and variables. This paper also makes further recommendation on how female labour force participation can boost economic growth in SSA.

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Section: Hausman Test and Estimate Of Long-run And Short-run Relation...supporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Empirical Review Of Flfprmentioning

confidence: 83%

Female labour force participation rate and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: “a liability or an asset”

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et al. 2022

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“…In line with the literature on panel causality related to female work participation, such as Aljebrin (2012), Subramaniam et al (2018), Shittu and Abdullah (2019), and Idowu and Owoeye (2019), this study utilises popular long-run estimation measures, such as FMOLS, DOLS and PMG estimation approaches. Pedroni (2000) argues that if the time series of the panel observations are cointegrated, the panel OLS estimation may generate uncertain results.…”

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Female Entrepreneurs in the Hospitality Industry: A Panel Causality Analysis of EU Countries

Ghosh¹

2020

Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice

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This study investigates the determinants of female entrepreneurship (FE) in the tourism and hospitality industry in 30 European countries. Based on annual observations for the period 2006–2016 and using panel causality techniques, the study explores the impact of tourism receipts, GDP per capita, the Global Entrepreneurial Index (GEI), policies related to institutional and cultural issues, childcare and gender parity related to skills and entrepreneurship on FE. The results of robust second-generation panel methods indicate the existence of long-run cointegration among FE, GDP, tourism receipts and other variables of interest. The long-run elasticities of tourism receipts, GDP, GEI, childcare and the female–male ratio of access to human capital formation in terms of training obtained from the panel fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) and the pooled mean group estimator (PMG) estimation are significant in the context of FE. The study concludes that pivotal policy interventions are needed to ensure that family policies and procedures, social strategies and tax structures do not discriminate female entrepreneurs.

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The Relationship between Fertility and Female Participation in the Labour Force in OECD Countries 2000–2020: It Is (Again) Negative

Milovanović

2023

Central European Economic Journal

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The cross-sectional association between female labour force participation rates and fertility in developed countries shifted from negative to positive during the 1980s. Ever since then, researchers have applied different statistical approaches; therefore, the present study re-evaluates the results by applying a distinct strategy to the data from 2000 to 2020 for 32 countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Specifically, the data analysis discussed here implemented the so-called „unified“ model, thereby extending the analysis beyond the limitations of the fixed effects (FE) method; namely, by decomposing coefficients within (time-series) and between (cross-sectional) countries‘ effects, the study increased the explanatory power of our statistical model on the relation between fertility level and female labour force participation rate. Eventually, the selected statistical approach has shown the potential to offer a better interpretation of results in comparison to previous studies. Finally, this study confirmed the persistence of a negative trend in a time-series association between labour force participation and fertility.

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Causality Between Female Fertility and Female Labour Force Participation in Asean-5

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Female labour force participation rate and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: “a liability or an asset”

Female labour force participation rate and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: “a liability or an asset”

Female Entrepreneurs in the Hospitality Industry: A Panel Causality Analysis of EU Countries

The Relationship between Fertility and Female Participation in the Labour Force in OECD Countries 2000–2020: It Is (Again) Negative

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