Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

This paper studies how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and nontradable sectors. Using Mexica...

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Main Authors:	Yahmed, Sarra Ben, Bombarda, Pamela
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	TRADE LABOR SKILLED LABOR FORMAL LABOR INFORMAL LABOR GENDER EMPLOYMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36710

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spelling	okr-10986-367102021-12-10T05:10:45Z Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico Yahmed, Sarra Ben Bombarda, Pamela TRADE LABOR SKILLED LABOR FORMAL LABOR INFORMAL LABOR GENDER EMPLOYMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION This paper studies how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and nontradable sectors. Using Mexican data over the period 1993–2001, we find that Mexican tariff cuts increase the probability of working formally for both men and women within four-digit manufacturing industries. The formalization of jobs within tradable sectors is driven by large firms. Constructing a regional tariff measure, we find that regional exposure to import liberalization increases the probability of working formally in the manufacturing sector for both men and women, and especially for men. However in the service sectors, the probability of working formally decreases for low-skilled women. 2021-12-09T19:28:07Z 2021-12-09T19:28:07Z 2020-06 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36710 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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topic	TRADE LABOR SKILLED LABOR FORMAL LABOR INFORMAL LABOR GENDER EMPLOYMENT TRADE LIBERALIZATION
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description	This paper studies how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and nontradable sectors. Using Mexican data over the period 1993–2001, we find that Mexican tariff cuts increase the probability of working formally for both men and women within four-digit manufacturing industries. The formalization of jobs within tradable sectors is driven by large firms. Constructing a regional tariff measure, we find that regional exposure to import liberalization increases the probability of working formally in the manufacturing sector for both men and women, and especially for men. However in the service sectors, the probability of working formally decreases for low-skilled women.
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author	Yahmed, Sarra Ben Bombarda, Pamela
author_facet	Yahmed, Sarra Ben Bombarda, Pamela
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title	Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico
title_short	Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico
title_full	Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico
title_fullStr	Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36710
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Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

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