Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on gender wage discrimination. The authors employ a simple method that is able to capture the direct impacts of openness at the industry level on the gender wages. The authors find evidence...
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okr-10986-264542021-04-23T14:04:36Z Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination Helena Santos, Marina Arbache, Jorge Saba GENDER EMPLOYMENT LABOR MARKET COMPETITION GENDER GAP WAGE DISCRIMINATION TRADE LIBERALIZATION This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on gender wage discrimination. The authors employ a simple method that is able to capture the direct impacts of openness at the industry level on the gender wages. The authors find evidence that increasing openness is associated with narrowing wage gap, which results mainly from men’s wages declining. This is consistent with the Becker’s (1957) proposition that competition reduces discrimination in the labor market. The plan of the paper is as follows : 1) Section one introduces; 2) Section two presents the trade liberalization in Brazil; 3) Section three presents the data, strategy and results; and 4) Section four concludes. 2017-04-25T17:12:16Z 2017-04-25T17:12:16Z 2005-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/824751491216065760/Trade-openness-and-gender-discrimination http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26454 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
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This paper investigates the impact of
trade liberalization on gender wage discrimination. The
authors employ a simple method that is able to capture the
direct impacts of openness at the industry level on the
gender wages. The authors find evidence that increasing
openness is associated with narrowing wage gap, which
results mainly from men’s wages declining. This is
consistent with the Becker’s (1957) proposition that
competition reduces discrimination in the labor market. The
plan of the paper is as follows : 1) Section one introduces;
2) Section two presents the trade liberalization in Brazil;
3) Section three presents the data, strategy and results;
and 4) Section four concludes. |
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Helena Santos, Marina Arbache, Jorge Saba |
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Helena Santos, Marina Arbache, Jorge Saba |
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Helena Santos, Marina |
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Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination |
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Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination |
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Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination |
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Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination |
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Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination |
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trade openness and gender discrimination |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/824751491216065760/Trade-openness-and-gender-discrimination http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26454 |
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