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Does economic globalization trigger de‐industrialization in Western Balkan countries? : empirical evidence based on augmented mean group estimator

Cengiz, Orhan; Manga, Müge - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 4, pp. 1-21

countries have also experienced deindustrialization without attaining a high economic level in the era of globalization. Since … for Western Balkan countries. Thus, our paper analyzes the impact of economic globalization on the deindustrialization …. Deindustrialization, which refers to declining industry share, is commonly observed in developed countries. However, many developing …

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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond - 2018

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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How women have fared with the rise of the People's Republic of China in global supply chain trade

Wang, Limin; Kanji, Shireen; Jha, Shikha; Meurs, Mieke E. - 2017

Global supply chain (GSC) trade has been a driving force underlying economic transformation, urbanization, and social change in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Female migrants account for a large share of the labor force in the country's GSC production base. Using province-level panel...

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Gender and comparative advantage : feminist-heterodox theorizing about globalization

Osterreich, Shaianne T. - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/35, pp. 1-12

Heterodox feminist scholars have argued that global trade patterns reflect patterns of competitive advantage-rather than comparative advantage-and that that competitive advantage is gendered. Further, they have suggested that we need more theoretical and empirical scholarship in this area. This...

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Globalization, Gender, and the Family

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

This paper shows that in the presence of labor market shocks, child-bearing and child-rearing have far-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births, marriages, and divorces together with employer-employee...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Recent US manufacturing employment : the exception that proves the rule

Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2017

This Working Paper challenges two widely held views: first that trade performance has been the primary reason for the declining share of manufacturing employment in the United States, and second that recent productivity growth in manufacturing has actually been quite rapid but is not accurately...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2018

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Globalization, deindustrialization and the labor market experiences of Swedish women, 1950 to 2000

Korpi, Tomas; Stern, Charlotta - In: Globalization, uncertainty and women's careers : an …, (pp. 115-141). 2006

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Female labor force participation in Asia : Indonesia country study

Schaner, Simone; Das, Smita - 2016

This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...

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