Juhn, Chinhui; Ujhelyi, Gergely; Villegas-Sanchez, Carolina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage inequality - gender … gender. A reduction in tariffs induces more productive firms to modernize their technology and enter the export market. New … relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …