Does trade liberalization narrow the gender wage gap? The role of sectoral mobility

Brussevich, Mariya

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.02.007

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“…Within each marriage, intrahousehold allocation issues are dealt with by bargaining, as for example in Browning et al (1994). Suppose that at the beginning of Period 1, each couple finds itself exogenously located in one of the two towns, 10 and must bargain to choose the town in which to live and work in Period 1, and again bargain at the beginning of Period 2 after the policy has been revealed. 11 The threat point takes the form of continuing to live in the initial town and each partner in the marriage consuming his/her real wage.…”

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NAFTA and the Wages of Married Women

Hakobyan¹,

McLaren²

2018

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Using US Census data for 1990-2000, we estimate effects of NAFTA on US wages, focusing on differences by gender. We find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much larger than the effect for other demographic groups. We investigate several possible explanations for this finding. It is not explained by differential sensitivity of female-dominated occupations to trade shocks, or by household bargaining that makes married women workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an explanation based on an equilibrium theory of selective non-participation in the labor market, whereby some of the higher-wage married women workers in their industry drop out of the labor market in response to their industry's loss of tariff. However, this does not fully explain the findings so we are left with a puzzle.

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NAFTA and the Wages of Married Women

Hakobyan¹,

McLaren²

2018

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“…In line with Autor et al. (), Brussevich () points out that male workers mainly bear the cost of production mobility because the US manufacturing industry is male intensive ( MK technology). Braunstein and Brenner () and Chen et al.…”

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Capital market integration and gender inequality

Komura

Ogawa

2019

Review Development Economics

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This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we describe how, in terms of capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital‐intensive sectors. Consequently, via changes in the bargaining positions of men and women, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital‐importing and capital‐exporting countries. Moreover, by considering the properties of the industrial structures of capital‐importing and capital‐exporting countries, we show that globalization induces empirically observed declines in fertility rates throughout the world.

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“…Some of the contributions previously reviewed emphasise the salience of gendered (job-to-job) mobility which can determine pay differentials between men and women (see, for instance, Albrecht et al 2018). The paper by Brussevich (2018) extends this idea to look at the role played by sectoral mobility in the United States coupled with the growing importance of trade liberalisation. The background of this argument is that, since the early 1990s, American manufacturing employment has declined by about onethird, with losses in male employment and wages representing the largest share of this decline because manufacturing industries that intensively employ men have suffered the most from import competition Autor, Dorn, and Hanson 2013).…”

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