Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset

Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses whether trading firms have a female labor share premium relative to non-trading...

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Main Authors:	Rocha, Nadia, Winkler, Deborah
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	TRADE GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR SHARE WAGE GAP
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/193111577420193090/Trade-and-Female-Labor-Participation-Stylized-Facts-Using-a-Global-Dataset http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33106

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spelling	okr-10986-331062022-09-20T00:12:53Z Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset Rocha, Nadia Winkler, Deborah TRADE GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR SHARE WAGE GAP Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses whether trading firms have a female labor share premium relative to non-trading firms. It focuses on four types of trading firms: exporters, importers, global value chain participants, and foreign firms. The study finds a female labor share premium for all four trading types, controlling for firm output, capital intensity, total factor productivity, and fixed effects. The findings also hold after controlling for differences in relative wages between men and women and excluding traditional export sectors (apparel and electronics) from the sample. The female labor share premium is much higher for production workers compared with non-production workers, implying that women specialize in low-skill production. In line with these findings, the study finds that the female labor share premium for exporters and global value chain participants is highest in low-tech sectors. And female ownership and management expand the female labor share premium for trading firms. Finally, the results suggest that although average wage rates are lower for firms with higher female labor shares, this negative correlation is smaller for trading firms. 2019-12-27T16:45:37Z 2019-12-27T16:45:37Z 2019-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/193111577420193090/Trade-and-Female-Labor-Participation-Stylized-Facts-Using-a-Global-Dataset http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33106 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9098 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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description	Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses whether trading firms have a female labor share premium relative to non-trading firms. It focuses on four types of trading firms: exporters, importers, global value chain participants, and foreign firms. The study finds a female labor share premium for all four trading types, controlling for firm output, capital intensity, total factor productivity, and fixed effects. The findings also hold after controlling for differences in relative wages between men and women and excluding traditional export sectors (apparel and electronics) from the sample. The female labor share premium is much higher for production workers compared with non-production workers, implying that women specialize in low-skill production. In line with these findings, the study finds that the female labor share premium for exporters and global value chain participants is highest in low-tech sectors. And female ownership and management expand the female labor share premium for trading firms. Finally, the results suggest that although average wage rates are lower for firms with higher female labor shares, this negative correlation is smaller for trading firms.
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author	Rocha, Nadia Winkler, Deborah
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title	Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset
title_short	Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset
title_full	Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset
title_fullStr	Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset
title_full_unstemmed	Trade and Female Labor Participation : Stylized Facts Using a Global Dataset
title_sort	trade and female labor participation : stylized facts using a global dataset
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/193111577420193090/Trade-and-Female-Labor-Participation-Stylized-Facts-Using-a-Global-Dataset http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33106
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