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Engendering Trade / Do, Quy-Toan
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Do, Quy-Toan
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative advantage.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Factor endowments.
- Female discrimination.
- Gender and Development.
- Gender gap.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Political Economy.
- Trade integration.
- Woman empowerment.
- Local Subjects:
- Comparative advantage.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Factor endowments.
- Female discrimination.
- Gender and Development.
- Gender gap.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Political Economy.
- Trade integration.
- Woman empowerment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (42 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2011
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The authors analyze the interaction between a country's world market integration and its attitude towards gender roles. They discuss both theoretically and empirically how female empowerment is a source of comparative advantage that shapes a country's response to trade opening. Reciprocally, the authors show that as countries integrate into the world economy, the costs and benefits of gender discrimination shift. Their theory goes beyond a potential aggregate wealth effect associated with trade opening, and emphasizes the heterogeneity of impacts. On the one hand, countries in which women are empowered-measured by fertility rates, female labor force participation or female schooling-experience an expansion of industries that use female labor relatively more intensively. On the other hand, the gender gap is smaller in countries that export more in relatively female-labor intensive sectors. In an increasingly globalized economy, the road to gender equality is paradoxically very specific to each country's productive structure and exposure to world markets.
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