This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …

This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … divorces. This shift is driven largely by women, not men. Correspondingly, the negative earnings implications of the rising … import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. The paper establishes the market …

marriage, as well as lower rates of divorce. This move is driven by women, not men. We document substantial long-run earnings … losses concentrated on women, and gender inequality increases. The gender-specific effects are due to a woman's ability to … give birth during a fixed period of life–her biological clock. Women have a higher reservation value for staying in the …

estimates suggest that male top-earners are the main beneficiaries, whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be …

shared among workers. Male top-earners are the main beneficiaries; whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to …