Feminist Economics invites submissions
of papers for a special issue Inequality, Development, and Growth.We encourage
scholars in all disciplines to consider submitting abstracts for papers
by October 1, 2006. If the abstract is accepted, the completed manuscript
is due April 15, 2007.
Along with increasing global economic integration and market liberalization
over the last few decades, inter-group inequality has expanded both within
and between countries. In a number of developing countries, persistent
wage gaps have accompanied rapid growth. In industrial countries, on the
other hand, improvement in gender wage gaps is associated with rising
class, race, and ethnic inequalities. Although nation-states have attempted
to avert rising inequality through a variety of policies (e.g. labor market,
social, monetary, fiscal, and industrial policies), market liberalization
has impaired the success of these policies in reducing inequality. Feminist
literature has established that macroeconomic policies have gendered effects;
however, further evidence is necessary to understand the connections between
inter-group inequalities related to gender, class, and ethnicity and macroeconomic
outcomes, including employment, output, growth, and development. The integration
of gender into macroeconomic theory and efforts to develop more gender
equitable macroeconomic policy recommendations will require more detailed
attention to these critical issues.
This special issue will provide a forum for analyzing inequality, redistribution,
and growth in developing, industrial, and transitioning countries. Both
theoretical and empirical contributions are encouraged, as well as discussions
of the policy implications of the research findings. Besides statistical
analysis, the guest editors encourage a diverse range of research methods
and analyses.
Possible paper topics include:
- The effects of globalization on gender inequality and its linkages to inequalities by class and ethnicity
- Mechanisms and state policies that increase inequality (e.g. fiscal conservatism, generation of oversupply of labor, erosion of labor market regulations)
- Effects of gender inequality (well-being, income) on macroeconomic outcomes
- Effects of macroeconomic policy on unpaid labor
- Central banks, monetary policy, and gender
- Gender inequality and social exclusion
- Measurement of inequality in well-being (e.g. health, education)
- Functionings, capabilities, and the quality of life
- Redistributive policies, development, and growth
- Equal employment opportunity policies, family friendly policies, social safety nets, and macroeconomic policies
- Social insurance and gender inequality
- Local and global responses to inequality
Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to
Guest Editors Günseli Berik (berik@economics.utah.edu)
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (yrodgers@rci.rutgers.edu)
Stephanie Seguino (stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu).
Final papers (after approval of abstracts) should be submitted to Feminist
Economics through the submissions website mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec.
Questions about these procedures may be sent to feministeconomics@rice.edu
Phone : +1 713.348-4083
Fax : +1 713.348.5495