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"Gender and skill-differentiated impacts of global trade shocks in developing Asia: A top-down look " Authors: Corong, Erwin, Ian Coxhead and Anna Strutt Abstract This paper examines the impact of major recent global trade shocks on labor market outcomes in Asian developing countries. We use a global general equilibrium model, with labor data that distinguish workers by skill and by gender, to quantify impacts on employment, wages, and skill premia. A large empirical literature establishes that men and women, and low- and high-skill labor, are employed with differing intensities by industry. Trade shocks that reallocate production across sectors can generate uneven impacts across gender-skill groups, even before accounting for differences in labor market adjustment behavior. While much of the literature is industry-specific, a global general equilibrium framework is well suited to capturing economy-wide linkages, including interactions between gender and skill that may shape aggregate outcomes. Workers in each gender-skill category are also found to respond in different ways to labor demand and wage shocks. Empirical studies suggest gender differences in job mobility, industry switching, and wage sensitivity, as well as differences in adjustment along intensive and extensive margins. These patterns are especially relevant in developing countries, where labor force participation may vary widely by gender. Gender differences in responses to financial constraints and incentives to continue schooling suggest these channels may also be important. We use the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and version 12 Data Base to analyze these linkages, augmenting the GTAP Data Base with more detailed labor data classified by education and gender. Using the model to establish border price effects of trade and trade policy shocks, our analysis decomposes labor market effects by gender and skill. We examine both between-industry effects arising from sectoral expansion and contraction and within-industry effects due to changes in relative factor demand and substitution. |
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- Education - Labor market issues - Trade and gender - Asia (East) - Asia (South-Central) - Asia (Southeast) |
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