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Three Essays On Gender-Specific Employment Outcomes Of Macroeconomic Policies, Selin Secil Akin
Three Essays On Gender-Specific Employment Outcomes Of Macroeconomic Policies, Selin Secil Akin
Doctoral Dissertations
This three-essay dissertation examines the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on gender-disaggregated employment outcomes both theoretically and empirically. The first essay constructs a structuralist macroeconomic model that explores channels whereby fiscal and monetary policies impact women’s paid and unpaid work. The essay discusses two factors related to labor market segregation that can explain differential effects of macroeconomic policies on male and female employment: the labor intensity of female-dominated sectors, and different responses of capacity utilization to aggregate demand shocks in male and female-dominated sectors. In addition, a decline in output resulting from aggregate demand shocks may increase women’s unpaid …