The effects of structural change and economic liberalisation on gender wage differentials in South Korea and Taiwan

Seguino, Stéphanie

doi:10.1093/cje/24.4.437

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“…Özler (2000) builds upon this strand of the literature by using plant-level data for the period 1983-1985 from the Turkish manufacturing sector and shows that the female share of employment in a plant increases with the export to total output ratio of its sector. In line with the arguments above, she notes that women are often employed in low-skill and low-paid jobs and especially among those establishments where investment in machinery and equipment leads to a decline in the female employment share, thus pointing to dynamic long-run effects disadvantageous to a feminization of the labor force (in this context, see also Wood, 1998 andSeguino, 2000). This suggests, globalization may first lead to an expansion of femaleintensive sectors which then rationalize production by investment and technological progress.…”

Section: Review Of the Empirical Literaturementioning

confidence: 68%

Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Wacker¹,

Cooray

Gaddis

2017

Globalization

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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 AbstractWe investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case studies or simple cross-country variation, we find that both, FDI and trade have a generally negative impact on female labor force participation. While the impact is of negligible economic size, it is stronger for younger cohorts, potentially reflecting a higher incentive to stay out of the labor force and invest in education in view of an increased skill premium due to globalization.We also find that the direction of the effect depends on the industrial structure of the economy. This suggests that there is no evidence of a (conditional) anti-female bias in multinational corporations' factor demand once one controls for the interaction of FDI with the size of the agricultural sector. We can thereby explain why country studies find other effects and question the generalization of their results into an overarching globalization tale concerning female labor force participation.

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Section: Review Of the Empirical Literaturementioning

confidence: 68%

Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Wacker¹,

Cooray

Gaddis

2017

Globalization

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“…Increasing economic integration fosters the export of lower cost products produced by cheap female labors in the labor-intensive countries. Growing export increases the productivity and investment, as well as growth which results in the expansion of export oriented female-dominated manufacturing industries as these, can be operated through cheap female workers (Seguino, 2000a;2000b;Blecker and Seguino, 2002). Thus countries will invest more money in cheap workers instead of human capital of women that can deteriorate the overall condition of the female.…”

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Trade Liberalization and Gender Inequality in Emerging Economies - from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Fatema

Islam

2017

Asian Economic and Financial Review

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Article History JEL Classification O50, F16, F60. The study identifies the effect of trade liberalization on gender inequality in labor market, welfare, and empowerment in the emerging economies considering the significance of gender inequality issue in sustainable development goals (SDGs). It uses global gender gap index (GGGI) and its four sub-indexes namely economic participation and opportunity, education, health and politics as indicators of gender inequality in different aspects. Due to the problem of endogeneity and the presence of time-invariant variables Hausman-Taylor estimation technique has been applied to a panel data set of 40 countries for the period of 2006-2014. The results of the study suggest that trade openness significantly reduces gender inequality in labor market in high growth EAGLE and NEST countries but increase the inequality in other emerging economies. The effect of trade openness in reducing gender inequality in welfare and empowerment is positive, but higher trade increases health gap in other emerging economies. The effects of culture and religion on gender inequality are mixed and differ substantially across countries. According to the findings of the study, trade and government expenditure can be used as essential tools to achieve gender equality goal of SDGs if the proper policy is adopted.

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“…På den annen side er markedsliberaliseringens følger for likestillingen i arbeidslivet også møtt med feministisk-økonomisk kritikk (Colling & Dickens 1998;Elson 2002;Seguino 2000). For å undersøke hvordan globalisering har påvirket likestillingen, tar Seguino og Grown (2006) utgangspunkt i effektene av liberalisering av internasjonal handel og finansmarkeder.…”

Section: Feministisk øKonomi: Empirisk Beleggunclassified

“…Den økonomiske utviklingen har bedret kvinners stilling, men på grunn av segmenterte kjønnsroller er offentlig inngrep nød-vendig for å oppnå likestilling. Denne konklusjonen støttes av empiriske studier, som i hovedsak påviser negative implikasjoner ved økonomisk liberalisering for kvinners lønn, arbeidsdeltakelse og -vilkår (Seguino 2000(Seguino , 2010. Også feministisk-økonomiske teoretikere henstiller til offentlige myndigheter å iversette politiske tiltak, som reguleringer og makroøkonomisk styring, for å fremme økonomisk likestilling (Elson 2002;Seguino & Grown 2006).…”

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Dyvesether¹

2017

NST

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The effects of structural change and economic liberalisation on gender wage differentials in South Korea and Taiwan

Cited by 92 publications

References 4 publications

Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment

Trade Liberalization and Gender Inequality in Emerging Economies - from the Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

Er politikk eller marked nøkkelen til likestilling i arbeidslivet?

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