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Do Employers' Responses to Crises Impact Men and Women Differently? Firm‐level Evidence from Indonesia
Author(s) -
HallwardDriemeier Mary,
Rijkers Bob,
Waxman Andrew
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/rode.12230
Subject(s) - differential (mechanical device) , demographic economics , wage , economics , differential effects , census , labour economics , micro level , demography , medicine , economic impact analysis , population , sociology , engineering , aerospace engineering , microeconomics
Do employers' responses to crises impact men and women differently? Using manufacturing census data from Indonesia this paper assesses gender differences in the impact of the East Asian crisis and to what extent these were due to differential treatment of men and women within firms and gender sorting across firms that varied in their exposure to the crisis. On average, women experienced higher job losses than their male colleagues within the same firm. However, the aggregate adverse effect of such differential treatment was more than offset by women being disproportionately employed in firms hit relatively less hard by the crisis. The null hypothesis that there were no gender differences in wage adjustment is not rejected.