This study investigates the impact of increased import competition on gender wage and employment differentials in U.S. manufacturing over the period from 1976 to 1993. Increased import competition is expected to decrease the relative demand for workers in low-wage production occupations and the...

Divisions of gender and work / Lena Gonäs, Jan Ch Karlsson -- Labour market inequality, past and future : a perspective from the United States / Chris Tilly -- Gendered divisions of work : a multilevel approach / Lena Gonäs -- Segregated integration / Ann Bergman -- Measuring gender...

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...