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In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …
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In this paper, we investigate whether gender norms and institutions act as a constraint to the performance of female … controlling for other factors that affect female businesses uniformly across all markets. We provide evidence that gender … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015055768
We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of...
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Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with industry level information on industries' outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome the potential aggregation bias as...
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Standard neo-classical trade theory predicts that trade liberalisation should cause a fall in wage inequality in developing countries through a decrease in the relative demand for skilled labour. Recent studies of a number of developing countries, however, find evidence to the contrary. Using a...
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