The authors analyze the interaction between a country's world market integration and its attitude towards gender roles. They discuss both theoretically and empirically how female empowerment is a source of comparative advantage that shapes a country's response to trade opening. Reciprocally, the authors show that as countries integrate into the world economy, the costs and benefits of gender discrimination shift. Their theory goes beyond a potential...
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2011/08/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS5777
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2011/08/23
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Disclosed
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Engendering trade
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comparative advantage