Integrating Equality - Globalization, Women's Rights, Son Preference and Human Trafficking

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Employing economic and social globalization indicators, we empirically analyze whether globalization affects women's rights in the economic and social dimensions. Using panel data from 150 countries over the 1981-2008 period, we find that social globalization positively affects both women's economic and social rights, while the impact of economic globalization disappears when controlling for social globalization. Furthermore, we find that social globalization also reduces 'son preference' problems, prevailing in developing countries. However, (marginalized) foreign women, proxied with inflows of human trafficking, are not beneficiaries of such 'female-friendly' globalization effects.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 73

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Integration ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
• Subject: economic and social globalization ; women’s economic and social rights ; son preference ; human trafficking

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cho, Seo-Young
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG)
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/90494
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