Gender wage discrimination with employer prejudice and trade openness

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Ben Yahmed, Sarra (2023) Gender wage discrimination with employer prejudice and trade openness. World Development, 170. ISSN 0305-750X

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Abstract

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalisation on gender wage inequality. A simple trade model with employer taste-based discrimination and imperfect competition provides an explanation for the heterogeneous effects of international trade on the gender wage gap within sectors. While import competition reduces rents and with them the gender wage gap, the effect of exports depends on the level of concentration of a sector. On the one hand, easier access to foreign markets has a competition effect through the selection of the low-cost firms in non-concentrated sectors. On the other hand, better export opportunities with easier access to foreign markets can increase profits of domestic firms’ in concentrated sectors and thus enable discriminatory firms to maintain wage gaps. Evidence from Uruguay supports the empirical relevance of the taste-based discrimination mechanism at the sector level.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	employer taste-based discrimination,gender wage gap,imperfect competition,international trade,oligopoly,uruguay,geography, planning and development,development,sociology and political science,economics and econometrics,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2024 11:30
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2025 12:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96265
DOI:	10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106319

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