Engendering trade, Vol. 1 of 1

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Engendering trade

Author:	Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Raddatz, Claudio;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5777
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2011/08/23
Document Date:	2011/08/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS5777	SubTopics:	Political Economy; Economic Theory & Research; Labor Markets; Labor Policies; Gender and Development
Volume No:	1 of 1

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ﾒs productive structure and exposure to world markets.


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