Affirmative action and empowerment: Friends or foes?

Vidya Atal; Ram Sewak Dubey

Affirmative action and empowerment: Friends or foes?

Economics

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Abstract

We consider effects of quota or "affirmative action" for women at work-places on the societal outcomes. A simple model of household decision making with production and endogenously determined female power is studied. We show that even under standard economic modeling specifications, as a result of affirmative action, it could turn out to be the case that female labor force participation and social welfare rise but at the cost of diminished female power and wider male-female wage-gap.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1012-1018
Number of pages	7
Journal	Economics Bulletin
Volume	34
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2014

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Affirmative action
Wage-gap
Women's empowerment

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Affirmative action and empowerment: Friends or foes?

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