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Mercado de trabajo de la mujer y políticas de cuidado infantil en Colombia: simulaciones de políticas con un modelo pionero de equilibrio general computable
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 5:00 pm
“During recent decades, Colombia has undergone significant social, economic, and demographic shifts. Availing themselves of new opportunities, women have increased their participation in the labor market and improved their capabilities. Some indicators of gender equality are now similar to those of high-income countries. At this point, stubborn inequalities in unpaid care and domestic work are becoming a major bottleneck in the way of continued progress. However, with rare exceptions, economic models fail to consider gender in labor markets in general and in issues related to the provision of care and domestic work in particular, making them unfit to analyze the impact of policies of economywide significance that address care and gender equality in Colombia and elsewhere. To remedy this situation, this paper develops the first care-extended CGE model for Colombia, accompanied by a Colombian database, including a pioneering social accounting matrix with labor disaggregated by gender and extensions to cover home child care and domestic work. Model simulations are designed to analyze and contrast the impacts of equal increases in government spending on two policies: subsidies to market-based childcare services and cash transfers to households with young children. Preliminary results indicate that both policies improve the economic situation of families with children but that they have quite different impacts on work outside the home: in the context of current inequalities in time spent on domestic child care, the subsidy program significantly raises female market work. The results are discussed in the context of the literatures on policies for gender equality and the design of methods for analyzing such policies.”
Mercado de trabajo de la mujer y políticas de cuidado infantil en Colombia: simulaciones de políticas con un modelo pionero de equilibrio general computable
