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The impact of exporting on women's employment

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  • Begum Dikilitas
  • Burcu Fazlioglu
  • Basak Dalgic

Abstract

Purpose - This paper aims to examine the effect of exports on women's employment rate for Turkish manufacturing firms over a recent period of 2003–2015. Design/methodology/approach - The authors establish treatment models and use propensity score matching (PSM) techniques together with difference-in-difference methodology. Findings - The results of the study indicate that starting to export increases women’s employment rate for manufacturing firms. Gains in female employment rates are observed for the firms operating in low and medium low technology intensive sectors, low-wage sectors as well as laborlabor-intensive goods exporting sectors. Originality/value - The authors complement previous literature by utilizing a rich harmonized firm-level dataset that covers a large number of firms and a recent time period. The authors distinguish between several sub-samples of firms according to technology intensity of the sector in which they operate, wage level and factor intensity of exports and investigate whether or not women gain from trade in terms of employment opportunities.

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  • Begum Dikilitas & Burcu Fazlioglu & Basak Dalgic, 2021. "The impact of exporting on women's employment," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 43(4), pages 926-949, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijmpps:ijm-08-2020-0362
    DOI: 10.1108/IJM-08-2020-0362
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    Keywords

    Exports; Women's employment; Gender inequality; Propensity score matching; C21; C23; D21; D24; F10; F23; J16;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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