Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico

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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