DO WORKING WOMEN CONTRIBUTE TO HIGHER CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES?

• Authors: Jun Wen , Waheed Juanid , Hussain Hadi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Working women with their highly relative bargaining power and compulsive buying behaviour can significantly affect household consumption expenditures. This study investigates the relationship between the number of working women and aggregate consumption expenditures. We examine the hypothesis that changes in the number of working women have a perceptible impact on per capita household consumption expenditures, by extension, on aggregate consumption. Using panel data for a set of The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from 2000 – 2018, the outcomes of two-stage least squares and generalized method of moment estimations indicate that as the number of women increases, gross domestic consumption rises. The implied disparity in consumption propensities exists among different age groups of working women. These findings suggest the importance of considering working women’s spending behaviour and household decision-making in planning for the development of gross domestic consumption and output.

Keywords

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WORKING WOMEN; SPENDING BEHAVIOUR; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES; AGGREGATE CONSUMPTION; ECONOMIC OUTPUT; OECD

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 379 – 404

Contributors

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Jun Wen

• Xian Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, 74 Yanta Road, 710000 Xian, China

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Waheed Juanid

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Hussain Hadi

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ekoncas.2021.04.03