educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …

. Our key finding is that export of goods that are intensive in interpersonal contacts widens the gender wage gap. The …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 …

We examine whether exposure to gender inequality at export destinations affects the gender wage gap in exporting firms … employer- employee data from Sweden and calculate how exposed firms are to country-level gender inequality through their export … destinations. Although increased export intensity on average leads to a wider within-firm gender wage gap, the effect is entirely …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has …

This paper focuses on the impact that gender segregation in the labour market exerts on the underemployment gender gap …, especially for women. Furthermore, we conclude that the gender gap in underemployment is mainly due to the different distribution … of male and female workers across occupations and industries. Additionally, the different impact by gender that working …

In this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are … confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles … education, employment, fertility, social life, gender norms and more, we observe an increase of 10 percentage points in the raw …

This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …

While the gender pay gap between men and women in Germany remains at 18 percent, this figure is not the same for all … employees. There are, for example, major differences by age. Beginning at age 30, the gender pay gap increases sharply and … remains constantly high at 20 percent until retirement. Closely related to this is the gender care gap, the difference in …

heterogeneous effects of international trade on the gender wage gap within sectors. Firms operate in an oligopoly where prejudiced … rents and with them the average gender wage gap in sectors that were sheltered from competition prior to trade …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …