Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be … discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-study on gender wage discrimination and do not find any … evidence that more discrimination might further economic growth on the contrary: if anything the impact of gender inequality is …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …