Gender Inequality and Trade

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The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively associated with comparative advantage in labour-intensive goods, that is, countries with a larger gender wage gap have higher exports of these goods. Also, gender inequality in labour force activity rates and educational attainment rates are negatively linked with comparative advantage in labour-intensive commodities.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 308

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Standards: General ; Labor Discrimination: General ; Neoclassical Models of Trade ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions
• Subject: Gender Inequality ; Trade ; Comparative Advantage ; Geschlechterforschung ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Arbeitsintensität ; Export ; Komparativer Kostenvorteil

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Busse, Matthias ; Spielmann, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
• (where): Hamburg
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19280
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET