Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185345 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11885
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital-importing and capital-exporting countries, via changes in the bargaining positions of men and women. Moreover, by considering the properties of the industrial structures of capital-importing and capital-exporting countries, our result shows that globalization induces empirically observed declines in fertility rates throughout the world.
Subjects: 
globalization
capital market integration
gender inequality
domestic production
JEL: 
F15
F21
F66
J12
J13
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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