scholarly journals Effect of the Great Crisis on Sectoral Female Employment in Europe: A Structural Decomposition Analysis

Economies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Izaskun Barba ◽  
Belen Iraizoz
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
Productivity Change ◽  
Structural Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Structural Decomposition ◽  
Service Sectors ◽  
Labor Requirements

Sectoral gender segregation in labor markets is a fact. This paper examines the female distribution of employment by sectors in the EU 28, thereby contributing to the literature on the effects of the recession and subsequent austerity measures on female employment. An input-output model and structural decomposition analysis are used to assess the contribution of factors such as technological change, productivity change and final demand change. The latter had a positive impact over the period of analysis by creating new job opportunities for women, especially in the public service sectors, whereas productivity growth had a negative impact, particularly in the private service sectors. These changes have resulted in a reduction in the level of gender sectoral segregation; change in household expenditure again is the main driver of this reduction. Changing trends in labor requirements and gross capital formation have the opposite effect; thus, these trends increase the level of sectoral segregation.

scholarly journals Research on China’s embodied carbon import and export trade from the perspective of value-added trade

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258902
Author(s):  
Guangyao Deng ◽  
Fengying Lu ◽  
Xiaofang Yue
Keyword(s):  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The United States ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Structural Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Structural Decomposition ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Import And Export

The development of globalization has separated the production and consumption of products spatially, and the international trade of products has become a carrier of embodied carbon trade. This paper adopted the perspective of value-added trade to calculate the amount of embodied carbon trade of China from 2006 to 2015 and perform a structural decomposition analysis of the changes in China’s embodied carbon trade. This study found that: (1) China’s embodied carbon exports are much larger than its embodied carbon imports, and there are differences between countries. China imported the largest amount of embodied carbon from South Korea, and it exported the largest amount of embodied carbon to the United States. (2) The structural decomposition analysis shows that changes in the value-added carbon emission coefficient during the study period would have caused China’s embodied carbon trade to decrease, and changes in value-added trade would have caused China’s embodied carbon trade to increase. Therefore, countries trading with China need to strengthen their cooperation with China in energy conservation, emission reduction, and product trade. In order to accurately reflect China’s embodied carbon trade, it is necessary to calculate embodied carbon trade from the perspective of value-added trade.

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