TY - JOUR
T1 - On the demand for female workers in Japan
T2 - The role of ICT and offshoring
AU - Kiyota, Kozo
AU - Maruyama, Sawako
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Shigeyuki Abe, Sarra Ben Yahmed, Yukiko Ito, Naoto Jinji, Sung-Chun Jung, Ayako Obashi, Fumio Ohtake, Tsunehiko Otsuki, seminar participants at Kobe University and Osaka University, and participants of Asian Economic Panel Keio Meeting, EHESS—Keio conference on globalization and labor market outcomes, the JAE Meeting, and the JSIE Meeting for their helpful comments. We are grateful to Tatsuji Makino for providing us with the disaggregated JIP labor data and to Taiji Hagiwara and Kozo Miyagawa for providing us with data set of the Japanese input-output tables. Kiyota gratefully acknowledges financial support received from the MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities. Kiyota gratefully acknowledges financial support received from the JSPS Grant-in-Aid (JP16H02018, JP26285058). The usual disclaimers apply.
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PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - This paper examines the determinants of the demand for female workers, focusing on the role of information and communication technology (ICT) and offshoring. Estimating a system of variable factor demands for manufacturing industries between 1980 and 2011, we find that, whereas the ICT capital stock has significantly positive effects on the demand for low-, middle-high-, and high-skilled female workers, it has significantly negative effects on the demand for middle-low-skilled female workers. In contrast, offshoring has insignificant effects on the demand for female workers, which suggests that offshoring is at least neutral on the demand for female workers.
AB - This paper examines the determinants of the demand for female workers, focusing on the role of information and communication technology (ICT) and offshoring. Estimating a system of variable factor demands for manufacturing industries between 1980 and 2011, we find that, whereas the ICT capital stock has significantly positive effects on the demand for low-, middle-high-, and high-skilled female workers, it has significantly negative effects on the demand for middle-low-skilled female workers. In contrast, offshoring has insignificant effects on the demand for female workers, which suggests that offshoring is at least neutral on the demand for female workers.
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U2 - 10.1162/asep-a-00604
DO - 10.1162/asep-a-00604
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048871780
SN - 1535-3516
VL - 17
SP - 25
EP - 46
JO - Asian Economic Papers
JF - Asian Economic Papers
IS - 2
ER -