Measuring Gender (In)Equality: Introducing the Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base (GID). OECD Development Centre Working Paper No. 247

Autor/inn/en	Jutting, Johannes P.; Morrisson, Christian; Dayton-Johnson, Jeff; Drechsler, Denis
Institution	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Centre
Titel	Measuring Gender (In)Equality: Introducing the Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base (GID). OECD Development Centre Working Paper No. 247
Quelle	(2006), (51 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.1787/354470443614
Schlagwörter	Databases; Sex Fairness; Economic Status; Females; Foreign Countries; Employed Women; Developing Nations; Economic Development; Statistical Analysis; Sociocultural Patterns; Income; Gender Discrimination; Sex Role; Access to Education; Access to Health Care + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Datenbank; Sexualaufklärung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Statistische Analyse; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Einkommen; Geschlechterrolle; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang
Abstract	Efforts to establish, test and analyse hypotheses regarding cross-country variations in women's economic status are hampered by the lack of a readily accessible and easily used information resource on the various dimensions of gender inequality. Addressing this gap, this paper introduces the Gender, Institutions and Development data base (GID) www.oecd.org/dev/institutions/GIDdatabase of the OECD Development Centre. The GID constitutes an important improvement upon existing sources, notably because it incorporates institutional variables related to norms, laws, codes of conduct, customs, and family traditions that heretofore have been neglected in quantitative comparative studies. To illustrate the utility of the GID, the paper models the determinants of women's participation in the labour force -- an indicator of gender equality as well as an important ingredient for long-run economic growth -- and demonstrates that the economic role of women hinges critically on variations in discriminatory social institutions. (A bibliography is included. Contains 4 footnotes, 6 figures and 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10