empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage … from increased trade should lead to a reduction in the gender wage gap. We compare the change in the residual gender wage … gap between 1976 and 1993 in concentrated versus competitive manufacturing industries, using the latter as a control for …

Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and … concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. The reduction in the gender wage gap is driven by sorting of workers … across sectors and occupations, while the reduction in the gender injury gap and the increased concentration of injuries …

the degree of gender segregation is much smaller than for the US"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site …