The Effect of Gender Wage Discrimination on Poverty in Iran's Provinces

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD Candidate in Economics, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

2 Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran

10.48308/jem.2024.235774.1917

Abstract

Numerous empirical and theoretical evidence emphasizes that poverty is one of the main obstacles to development. Therefore, the eradication of poverty is the challenge which is facing the international community in the effort to create a peaceful and just world, and the first priority of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is "ending poverty in all its forms". In fact, if conscious participation in development is considered not a privilege but a right, one of the most important obstacles to this right is poverty. The first step in effectively dealing with a problem is to know its determining factors. The present research is devoted to the investigation of factors affecting poverty with an emphasis on gender wage discrimination in Iran's provinces during the 2006-2021 with five-year intervals. After determining the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke poverty indices, the Neumark decomposition method is used to calculate gender wage discrimination. The variables of mobile phone penetration rate, the share of government construction expenditure, dependency ratio and inflation rate are entered as control variables in the model, and effective factors on poverty indicators are investigated using the panel data model. The results show that the effect of wage gender discrimination, dependency ratio and inflation rate on poverty is positive and significant, and the effect of mobile phone penetration and the share of government construction expenditures on poverty is negative and significant. The results indicate that measures that reduce gender wage discrimination can also be effective in reducing poverty.

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