International Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from India’s Manufacturing Sector
International Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from India’s Manufacturing Sector
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国际贸易与性别工资差距：来自印度制造业的新证据
DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.09.009
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Yana Rodgers
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作者：
Nidhiya Menon;Yana Rodgers
这项研究审查了印度贸易自由化带来的日益增强的竞争力如何影响妇女的相对工资和就业。新古典主义理论意味着，随着竞争的加剧，对女性工人的昂贵歧视应该随着时间的推移而减少。我们将这一想法纳入竞争和行业集中度的理论模型，并使用印度国家抽样调查组织（NSSO）家庭调查数据与1983年至2004年的贸易和生产数据合并的重复横截面来测试该模型。在行业一级，普通最小二乘法和固定效应回归的估计数表明，贸易开放程度的提高与印度集中的制造业的工资差距扩大有关。
This study examines how increasing competitive forces from India’s trade liberalization have affected women’s relative wages and employment. Neoclassical theory implies that costly discrimination against female workers should diminish over time with increased competition. We incorporate this idea into a theoretical model of competition and industry concentration and test the model using repeated cross-sections of India’s National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) household survey data merged with trade and production data from 1983 to 2004. Estimates from ordinary least-squares (OLS) and fixed effects regressions at the industry-level indicate that increasing openness to trade is associated with larger wage gaps in India’s concentrated manufacturing industries.