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Structural change and female participation in recent economic growth: a multisectoral analysis for the Spanish economy

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Economic growth has different impacts on gender gaps. In recent decades the growing participation of women in the labour market has reduced the gender employment gap, however a notable gender pay gap still persists standing at around 15% on average in the European Union. In this context, this paper evaluates the impact of economic growth patterns on the evolution of gender employment and pay gaps. First, sectorial feminization, direct discrimination, and structural change factors are identified and evaluated as ways to explain changes observed in the gender pay gap. Second, we explore the influence of demand, technology, and intensity factors on the evolution of employment combining gender, skill, sectorial, and temporal perspectives. As a case study, we examine Spanish economic growth from 1980 to 2007 and the influences on the size, composition (by skill), and distribution (by sector) of female and male employment, as well as the consequences for gender gaps. Our results show that structural change contributed to reduce the gender employment gap in Spain; while the evolution of the gender pay gap is less conclusive, following a sort of inverted U-shape. This paper shows the suitability and potential of the multisectorial input-output framework to analyse structural and technological changes and their impacts on the gender employment and pay gaps.

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Estudis de gènere, Dones en el desenvolupament, Creixement econòmic

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Gender studies, Women in development, Economic growth

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DUARTE, Rosa, SARASA, Cristina and SERRANO, Mònica (Serrano Gutiérrez). Structural change and female participation in recent economic growth: a multisectoral analysis for the Spanish economy. Economic Systems Research. 2019. Vol. 31, num. 4, pags. 574-593. ISSN 0953-5314. [consulted: 9 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/145077

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