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Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Pieters, Janneke; Sparrow, Robert - 2017
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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Trade liberalization and female labor force participation: Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - 2012
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This paper seeks to fill this gap and investigates the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287635
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This paper seeks to fill this gap and investigates the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733808
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for … regions in Asia and the selected other regions and aggregates are constructed to reinforce the importance of recognizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377300
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282267
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Untangling trade and technology: Evidence from local labor markets
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2013
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...
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Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2017
those labor flows. Exploiting variation across industries and regions, we find that globalization did not speed up the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653197
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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873469
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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015
Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Savchenko, … - 2018
This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931786
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The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices: Evidence from Brazil
Braga, Breno - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's trade liberalization in Brazil, which created exogenous negative labor market shocks to regions most exposed to foreign competition. While trade liberalization had a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931840