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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Main Authors: Helena Santos, Marina, Arbache, Jorge Saba
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/824751491216065760/Trade-openness-and-gender-discrimination
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spelling 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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topic GENDER
EMPLOYMENT
LABOR MARKET
COMPETITION
GENDER GAP
WAGE DISCRIMINATION
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
spellingShingle GENDER
EMPLOYMENT
LABOR MARKET
COMPETITION
GENDER GAP
WAGE DISCRIMINATION
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
Helena Santos, Marina
Arbache, Jorge Saba
Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Helena Santos, Marina
Arbache, Jorge Saba
author_facet Helena Santos, Marina
Arbache, Jorge Saba
author_sort Helena Santos, Marina
title Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
title_short Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
title_full Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
title_fullStr Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
title_full_unstemmed Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination
title_sort trade openness and gender discrimination
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/824751491216065760/Trade-openness-and-gender-discrimination
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26454
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