Does Women in Politics and Income Inequality Affect Social and Economic Well-Being? Insights from OECD Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13132-024-02203-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13132-024-02203-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13132-024-02203-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13132-024-02203-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does Women in Politics and Income Inequality Affect Social and Economic Well-Being? Insights from OECD Countries

Original language description

Women in politics and income inequality have become two prominent issues in developed economies and remain a topic of ongoing debate. To achieve sustained economic transformation, economies around the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) urgently need to adapt to sustainable development practices to reduce the risk of experiencing bad economic outlooks. However, the gap in the existing literature is the relationship between women in politics, income inequality, and the well-being of people, which has not received sufficient attention thus far. To fill this gap, this study aims to assess how income inequality and women in politics affect the social and economic well-being of OECD countries. This study adopts a panel dataset from 2000 to 2020 in a panel regression model and performs a fixed-effects analysis of the relationship among these factors. Interestingly, we show no significant association between women in politics and human development. In contrast, we confirm a positive and significant relationship between women in politics and gross national savings as well as renewable energy supply. Moreover, we confirm the key role of income and poverty levels in triggering social and economic well-being, as it shows a significant and negative relationship in all of our models. These original findings have several practical implications for policymakers and contribute to the current debate on the role of women in politics and income inequality across OECD countries.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50700 - Social and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of the Knowledge Economy

ISSN

1868-7865

e-ISSN

1868-7873

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

7612-7633

UT code for WoS article

001271335400003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85198323400