International trade and gender wage discrimination: Evidence from East Asia

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-254

  Berik, Günseli ^a   Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen ^b   Zveglich Jr , Joseph E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c Asian Development Bank   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; WAGE GAP; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 2142766975     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2004.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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