Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171215 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 17-047
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
I introduce taste-based discrimination in a trade model with imperfect competition and provide an explanation for the heterogeneous effects of international trade on the gender wage gap within sectors. Firms operate in an oligopoly where prejudiced employers can use their rents to pay men a premium in line with Becker's theory. On one hand, import competition reduces local rents and with them the average gender wage gap in sectors that were sheltered from competition prior to trade liberalization. On the other hand, easier access to foreign markets can increase domestic firms' profits and enable discriminatory firms to maintain wage gaps. Evidence from the Uruguayan trade liberalisation supports the empirical relevance of the taste-based discrimination mechanism at the sectoral level.
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
employer taste-based discrimination
international trade
imperfect competition
JEL: 
F16
J31
J7
L13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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