It is expected that increasing female labor force participation (FLFP) rate, due to the gender wage gap, reduces the unit labor costs, and therefore increases profit rates. Using a dataset of 130 countries for 1990-2019, this paper shows that while FLFP increases profit share in highincome...

This paper examines the gender implications of Turkey's private pension scheme introduced in 2003 as a part of ongoing social security reform. While there is a growing literature on Turkey's social security reform, there are no studies on the gender dimension of social security and gender...

The goal of this paper is to investigate the relationship between type of welfare regimes and military expenditures. There is a sizeable empirical literature on the development of the welfare state and on the typology of the welfare regimes. There appear to be, however, no empirical studies that...