Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination

Arbache, Jorge Saba; Santos, Marina C. P.

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“…An alternative interpretation for the interactive effect, 3  , can be found in the literature on the economics of discrimination, which posits that the gender wage gap tends to be smaller in export-oriented sectors (Becker 1971). The gender wage gap is affected by the export-oriented maquila sector by the increased competition brought about by trade integration (Artecona and Cunningham 2002;Arbache and Santos 2005). The interactive effect, 3…”

Section: Poverty and Workers In The Maquila Sectormentioning

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Exports, Gender Wage Gaps, and Poverty in Honduras

Hoyos

Bussolo

Nunez

2012

Oxford Development Studies

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This paper identifies and estimates the reduction in poverty attributable to the improved opportunities that international trade integration offered to women in Honduras. The expansion of the export-oriented maquila sector has brought gender equality both in terms of employment and labour earnings. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage points is attributable to the wage premium paid to maquila workers, 0.1 percentage points to the wage premium received by women in the maquila sector, and 1 percentage point to employment creation.

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Section: Poverty and Workers In The Maquila Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Exports, Gender Wage Gaps, and Poverty in Honduras

Hoyos

Bussolo

Nunez

2012

Oxford Development Studies

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“…An alternative interpretation for the interactive effect, 3 δ , can be found in the economics of discrimination literature, which posits that the gender wage gap tends to be smaller in export-oriented sectors (Becker 1971). The gender wage gap is linked to the exportoriented maquila sector by the increased competition brought about by trade integration (Artecona and Cunningham (2002), Arbache and Santos (2005)). The interactive effect, 3 δ , is equal to the difference in the gender wage gap in and out of the maquila sector (table 5).…”

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Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence From Honduras

Bussolo¹,

Nunez²,

Hoyos³

2008

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…The empirical research on the impact of trade on labormarket discrimination typically regresses a wage gap on a trade openness measure and is therefore silent on whether a change in the wage gap is because the high-wage earners or the low-wage earners are affected disproportionately by trade liberalization. Still, there are two studies on Mexico and on Brazil, respectively, that indicate that the high-wage earners are affected disproportionately by trade liberalization and that this leads to a change in the wage gap due to trade liberalization (see Artecona andCunningham 2002, for Mexico andArbache andSantos 2005, for Brazil). goods from the simple sector, could see globalization reducing the wage gap but at the same time reducing the profit advantage of nondiscriminatory firms. Industrialized countries, on the other hand, could see an increase in the portion of nondiscriminatory firms but no corresponding reduction in the wage gap.…”

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“…The empirical research on the impact of trade on labor‐market discrimination typically regresses a wage gap on a trade openness measure and is therefore silent on whether a change in the wage gap is because the high‐wage earners or the low‐wage earners are affected disproportionately by trade liberalization. Still, there are two studies on Mexico and on Brazil, respectively, that indicate that the high‐wage earners are affected disproportionately by trade liberalization and that this leads to a change in the wage gap due to trade liberalization (see Artecona and Cunningham , for Mexico and Arbache and Santos , for Brazil).…”

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International Trade and Labor‐market Discrimination

Chisik

Namini

2018

Economic Inquiry

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Discrimination reduces the matching probability and output in the skill‐intensive differentiated‐product sector so that discrimination‐induced comparative advantage may overshadow technological comparative advantage in determining the pattern of trade. Trade liberalization generates a decrease in the skilled‐worker wage gap in the country that is an exporter of goods from the simple sector but increases it in the country that is a net exporter of differentiated products. Trade liberalization has an opposite effect on firms. In the country that is an exporter of simple goods, trade liberalization reduces the profits of the nondiscriminatory firms by more than those of the discriminatory firms. (JEL F16, F66, J71)

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Trade Openness and Gender Discrimination

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Exports, Gender Wage Gaps, and Poverty in Honduras

Exports, Gender Wage Gaps, and Poverty in Honduras

Can Maquila Booms Reduce Poverty? Evidence From Honduras

International Trade and Labor‐market Discrimination

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