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Gender-specific effects of import competition on individual fertility decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313045
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Long-term effect of international trade on the gender wage and educational gaps
Yamamura, Eiji - 2016
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 educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437033
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Adieu Rabenmutter : the effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2011
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009595
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009
While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
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Women's Lifetime Labor Supply and Labor Market Experience
Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - 2010
The pattern of joining the labor force only at an advanced stage of the life-cycle was widespread among American women in the 1960s and 1970s, but not since the 1980s. To explain this change we conduct a theoretical analysis of the interrelation between women's lifetime labor supply choices and...
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Immiserizing Deindustrialization : A Dynamic Trade Model with Credit Constraints
Chesnokova, Tatyana - 2004
This paper argues that opening up an economy to trade can result in welfare reducing deindustrialization when agents … are subject to credit constraints. The standard interpretation of such deindustrialization as a reallocation of resources … deindustrialization of India in colonial times may have been quite damaging. The paper develops a two-sector, one-factor, open economy …
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Money and the technologies of subjugation : a poststructuralist analysis of the ideology which legitimizes liberal political economy
Mraović, Branka - In: Globalisation and social responsibility, (pp. 219-252). 2006
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Education and labour market participation of women in Asia : theory and evidence
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Dowling, John Malcolm; Worswick, … - 1997
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Gender, international migration and social reproduction : implications for theory, policy, research and networking
Truong, Thanh-Dam - In: Asian and Pacific migration journal : APMJ 5 (1996) 1, pp. 27-52
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Globalization, roundaboutness, and relative wages
Francois, Joseph F.; Grier, Kevin; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2004
We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North by developing the basic linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Ethier-type division of labor model. Using this model we identify a formal relationship between...
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