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Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach

This paper describes the gender disparities in the potential creation of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) for China. Using the latest available data, social accounting matrix for 149 sectors, combined with employment satellite accounts based on China's seventh census...

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Main Authors: Wu, Xinxiong, Yong, Chen Chen, Lee, Su Teng
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/47155/
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2257932
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spelling my.um.eprints.471552024-12-09T07:24:04Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/47155/ Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach Wu, Xinxiong Yong, Chen Chen Lee, Su Teng HB Economic Theory This paper describes the gender disparities in the potential creation of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) for China. Using the latest available data, social accounting matrix for 149 sectors, combined with employment satellite accounts based on China's seventh census published in 2022, we analyse gender disparities in the potential job creation from the RCEP. The results show that the RCEP will potentially create more than 4.08 million jobs in China, with a particularly large increase in low-value-added sectors such as agriculture, light industry and low-end manufacturing. Imports are likely to create more jobs than exports. The potential job creation for females is more than 1.58 million, which is still 910,000 less than for males. While the RCEP may create jobs for females, it may expand the gender and skills disparities. The increased rate of tertiary education for Chinese females has not resulted in significant gains in current female employment. Therefore, measures to reduce taxes on imports and exports, share the cost of childbirth between employer and husband, and upgrade industries to create more high-skilled jobs are important to address the gender disparity in employment in China. Taylor & Francis 2024-10 Article PeerReviewed Wu, Xinxiong and Yong, Chen Chen and Lee, Su Teng (2024) Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach. Applied Economics, 56 (48). pp. 5699-5712. ISSN 0003-6846, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2257932 <https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2257932>. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2257932 10.1080/00036846.2023.2257932
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topic HB Economic Theory
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Wu, Xinxiong
Yong, Chen Chen
Lee, Su Teng
Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach
description This paper describes the gender disparities in the potential creation of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) for China. Using the latest available data, social accounting matrix for 149 sectors, combined with employment satellite accounts based on China's seventh census published in 2022, we analyse gender disparities in the potential job creation from the RCEP. The results show that the RCEP will potentially create more than 4.08 million jobs in China, with a particularly large increase in low-value-added sectors such as agriculture, light industry and low-end manufacturing. Imports are likely to create more jobs than exports. The potential job creation for females is more than 1.58 million, which is still 910,000 less than for males. While the RCEP may create jobs for females, it may expand the gender and skills disparities. The increased rate of tertiary education for Chinese females has not resulted in significant gains in current female employment. Therefore, measures to reduce taxes on imports and exports, share the cost of childbirth between employer and husband, and upgrade industries to create more high-skilled jobs are important to address the gender disparity in employment in China.
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author Wu, Xinxiong
Yong, Chen Chen
Lee, Su Teng
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Yong, Chen Chen
Lee, Su Teng
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title Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach
title_short Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach
title_full Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach
title_fullStr Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach
title_full_unstemmed Gender disparities in job creation of RCEP in China: a social accounting matrix approach
title_sort gender disparities in job creation of rcep in china: a social accounting matrix approach
publisher Taylor & Francis
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url http://eprints.um.edu.my/47155/
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2257932
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