Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Abstract
We consider effects of quota or "affirmative action" for women at work-places on the societal outcomes. A simple model of household decision making with production and endogenously determined female power is studied. We show that even under standard economic modeling specifications, as a result of affirmative action, it could turn out to be the case that female labor force participation and social welfare rise but at the cost of diminished female power and wider male-female wage-gap.
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Atal, Vidya and Dubey, Ram, "Affirmative Action and Empowerment: Friends or Foes?" (2014). Department of Economics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 7.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/economics-facpubs/7
Published Citation
Atal, V., & Dubey, R. S. (2014). Affirmative action and empowerment: Friends or foes?. Economics Bulletin, 34(2), 1012-1018.