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Engendering Trade

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dc.contributor.authorDo, Quy-Toan
dc.contributor.authorLevchenko, Andrei
dc.contributor.authorRaddatz, Claudio
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:38:23Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:38:23Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe 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 femalelabor 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9093
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9093
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWorld Development Report 2012
dc.titleEngendering Tradeen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaGender
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T11:56:15.201825Z
okr.globalpracticeEducation
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4391
okr.topicEducation
okr.topicGender
okr.topicLabor
okr.topicTrade
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