International Trade and the Gender Wage Gap: New Evidence from India's Manufacturing Sector

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 965-981

  Menon, Nidhiya ^a   Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; competition; discrimination; gender wage gap; India; trade liberalization

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MANUFACTURING; NEOCLASSICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; WAGE GAP; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 63149184654     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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