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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP10475 |
DP10475 Globalization: A Woman?s Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap | |
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe; Beata Javorcik; Esther Ann Bøler | |
发表日期 | 2015-03-08 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention,little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and flexibility from their employees. If commitment is not easily observable and women are perceived as less committed workers than men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters. We test this hypothesis using matched employer-employee data from the Norwegian manufacturing sector from 1996 to 2010. Our identification strategy relies on an exogenous shock, namely, the legislative changes that increased the length of the parental leave that is available only to fathers. We argue that these changes have narrowed the perceived commitment gap between the genders and show that the initially higher GWG observed in exporting firms relative to non-exporters has gone down after the changes took place. |
主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
关键词 | Exporters Gender wage gap Globalization |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10475 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539307 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe,Beata Javorcik,Esther Ann Bøler. DP10475 Globalization: A Woman?s Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap. 2015. |
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