Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260769 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9639
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import competition did not have persistent negative employment effects on men or led them to sort into the non-tradable or informal sectors. The adverse effects on the employment of low-educated women in the tradable sector, however, persist over time leading them to sort into the non-tradable sector or out of the labor force. The results are consistent with a mechanism in which gender occupational and industrial segregation leads to a widening of the gender gap in employment.
Subjects: 
import competition
female employment
gender discrimination
JEL: 
E24
F14
J16
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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