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| Title: | | Where the girls are: trade and labor market segregation in Colombia  |
| Authors: | | Ederington, Josh Minier, Jenny Troske, Kenneth R. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4131 |
| Abstract: | | Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 198491 to investigate this claim on plant-level data in three ways. First, we examine whether women are concentrated in exporting plants. Second, we examine whether the increase in foreign competition due to unilateral trade liberalization disproportionately drove discriminating plants out of the market. Finally, we investigate whether trade liberalization affected hiring decisions (and thus gender segregation) by Colombian firms. |
| Subjects: | | Discrimination trade competition |
| JEL: | | J7 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090513294 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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