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in domestic markets, and how it affects relative wages and formal employment between men and women. Using the Revealed … labour force surveys that contain information on sectoral employment and earnings. We find that sectors of comparative …
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between firm employment and exports. Our results show that tariffs have fallen and trade, as a share of GDP has increased … that increasing in employment from exports has occurred mainly in male, capital-intensive sectors. Labor-abundant countries …
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dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts … more exposed to trade liberalization experienced reductions in their employment levels, especially in female employment. We …
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employment and entrepreneurship. These obstacles manifest themselves in low rates of female labor participation, entrepreneurship …/industry pairs with a comparative advantage in female labor — both in terms of female employment and female entrepreneurship and …
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This study is the first to examine employment effects by gender in Austrian firms and thus provides insight into the …
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In this paper we study the link between globalization of firms and gender inequality. Specifically, we examine how the need for interpersonal contacts in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations are related to the gender wage gap. Our key finding is that export of goods that are...
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shocks may either increase or decrease the female-to-male employment ratio. The key theoretical result shows formally that …-to-male employment ratio should increase (decrease). We then use plausibly exogenous variation in the exposure of Tunisian local labor … larger in male-intensive sectors. This induced a decrease in the female-to-male employment ratio, with households likely …
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labor force participation and employment after a period of around two years. Our results are robust to a variety of … measures of trade protection and different time periods. Moreover, we find evidence that employment flows across sectors …
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We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to … explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor …
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This paper investigates impact of e-economic activities on female employment rates in Turkey over 1994–2016. The … analysis unveils three major findings. First, 80.74% of variations in female employment are accounted by e-commerce and control … variables. Second, Autoregressive Distributed Lag analysis documents that these series (female employment, e-commerce and …
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