Gender wage inequality and export‐led growth in South Korea

Seguino, Stéphanie

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“…little analysis of the effects of gender relations on FDI and international production, although some have considered the effects of gender asymmetries on export competitiveness (Blecker and Seguino 1998;Seguino 1997).…”

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Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and International Capital Mobility

Braunstein

2000

World Development

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In this paper I develop a theoretical foundation for analyzing how gender roles in the household affect foreign direct investment in a developing country context. It is argued that the extent to which women and men share the costs of social reproduction at the household level is a central determinant of women's labor supply and the profitability of investment. I combine a model of family structure with a structuralist macromodel to investigate the effects of various public policies on women's wages and employment. A major goal is to specify the constraints imposed by international capital mobility on the prospects for increased equality and living standards for women.

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Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and International Capital Mobility

Braunstein

2000

World Development

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“…There are even less that deal with gender-related issues. Among the exceptions, we find Seguino (1997) who concludes that the export-led growth of Korea had a small contribution to the narrowing of the gender wage gap. In the same line, Tzannatos (1999) analysis for 12 developing countries covering the 80s and the 90s go in the same direction of Seguino (1997) but estimating a bigger impact.…”

Section: Empirical Literature On the Skill Premia And Gendermentioning

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“…In fact, even though several studies have suggested that SBTC fails to explain many aspects of the wage-structure changes, namely, the evolution of the skill premia across gender (e.g., Blau and Kahn,1997;Card and DiNardo, 2002;Acemoglu, 2003;Autor et al, 2008;Bryan and Martinez, 2008), empirical analysis are rare. The impact of IT on the gender-related wage inequality also remains unclear and has only been approached by a few authors (e.g., Seguino, 1997). Indeed, surveying empirical literature on the skill premia we observe that genderrelated skill premia differential has been subject to a minor attention with particular relevance in determining the universal character of SBTC as an explaining factor.…”

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Trade, SBTC and Skill Premia – A Cross-Country and Cross-Gender Analysis

Afonso¹,

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Santos³

2012

Technological Change

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“…Low-cost exports were produced primarily by women, who faced job segregation in export industries (Seguino 1997;Cheng and Hsiung 1998). Empirical evidence suggests that low wages for women, roughly half those of men, were a stimulus to growth (Seguino 2000a).…”

Section: Gender and East Asian Growth: The Feminization Of Foreimentioning

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino

2005

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractEmphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as "late industrializers," relied on a managed-market approach with the state that employed a wide variety of policy instruments to promote industrialization. Nevertheless, whileAsian growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender-wage gaps. Genderequitable macroeconomic and development policies are thus required, including financial market regulation, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending.JEL Codes: L5, 01, F4, E24, F16, J16, I31

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Gender wage inequality and export‐led growth in South Korea

Cited by 114 publications

References 18 publications

Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and International Capital Mobility

Engendering Foreign Direct Investment: Family Structure, Labor Markets and International Capital Mobility

Trade, SBTC and Skill Premia – A Cross-Country and Cross-Gender Analysis

Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

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