Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35425 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4131
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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