Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.18045/zbefri.2020.1.35
Working women and per capita household consumption expenditures; an untouched reality
Wen Jun
; Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, 74 Yanta Road, Xian, China
Junaid Waheed
orcid.org/0000-0002-4055-1347
; Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, 74 Yanta Road, Xian, China
Hadi Hussain
; Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, 74 Yanta Road, Xian,China
Ihsan Jamil
orcid.org/0000-0003-2157-0355
; Xain Jiaotong University, School of Economics and Finance, 74 Yanta Road, Xian, China
Denisa Borbášová
; Xain Jiaotong University, School of Management, 28 Xianning Road, Xian,China.
Muhammad Khalid Anser
; School of Management, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Beilin, China.
Abstract
Working women have more compulsive buying tendencies which can lead to a significant increase in their household consumption expenditures. This study investigates the effects of changes in the number of working women on household per capita consumption. We test the hypothesis that changes in the number of working women have a discernible impact on household final per capita consumption expenditures, due to their differing consumption propensities, by doing an empirical analysis based on panel data set of 36 OECD economies within the period 2000-2016. The results indicate that changes in the number of working women increase the household per capita consumption expenditures. The result also implies that age plays a significant role in working women consumption
decision making and may lead to significant differences in aggregate consumption expenditure. These findings suggest the importance of understanding changes in the number of working women in planning for aggregate consumption mobilization and in the formulation of aggregate growth policies.
Keywords
working women buying behavior; household per capita consumption expenditures; GDP growth; empirical study; , OECD countries
Hrčak ID:
240194
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Publication date:
30.6.2020.
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