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Gender, Informal Employment and Trade Liberalization in Mexico.
- Source :
- World Bank Economic Review; Jun2020, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p259-283, 25p, 6 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This paper studies how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and nontradable sectors. Using Mexican data over the period 1993–2001, we find that Mexican tariff cuts increase the probability of working formally for both men and women within four-digit manufacturing industries. The formalization of jobs within tradable sectors is driven by large firms. Constructing a regional tariff measure, we find that regional exposure to import liberalization increases the probability of working formally in the manufacturing sector for both men and women, and especially for men. However in the service sectors, the probability of working formally decreases for low-skilled women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FREE trade
WOMEN'S employment
GENDER
EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE industries
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02586770
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- World Bank Economic Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 143433291
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhy020