The Effects of the East Asian Crisis on the Employment of Women and Men: The Philippine Case
2000; Elsevier BV; Volume: 28; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0305-750x(00)00023-1
ISSN1873-5991
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
ResumoThis paper analyzes the differential employment impacts on women and men brought about by the East Asian crisis and the preceeding periods of boom-bust cycles and increased openness. It is found that the growth period in the second half of the 1980s favored male employment more than female employment. The economic decline due to the East Asian crisis reversed this process and increased male unemployment more than female unemployment (especially in urban areas), despite a more rapid displacement of women workers from the manufacturing sector. One contributing factor to this is the resilience of the community, social and personal services, and wholesale and trade sector during the crisis. Evidence—such as increased female labor force participation and longer working hours for women relative to men during the crisis—points to increased female employment and work hours in the labor market as a major coping mechanism during the crisis. The paper therefore argues that the boom-bust cycles in the macroeconomy are not gender neutral and contributes to increasing earnings and labor time disparities between women and men, to the detriment of the women.
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