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Are EU exports gender-blind? Some key features of women participation in exporting activities in the EU

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  • Jose Manuel Rueda-Cantuche

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  • Nuno Sousa

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This analysis sheds new light on the gender-balance of the employment opportunities supported by extra-EU exports. This is done using a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model with the information provided by the WIOD-World Input-Output Database (Timmer et al., 2015) and the EXIOBASE-3 database (Stadler et al., 2017). On that basis we show that in 2011 almost 12 million women in the EU had jobs thanks to the exports of goods and services to the rest of the world. However the data also reveals that a gender gap to the disadvantage of women persisted as these jobs represented only 38% of the total employment in the EU supported by exports to the rest of the world. The analysis suggests that such gender gap is largely due to the concentration of female employment in the less export-oriented sectors, notably in services.

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  • Jose Manuel Rueda-Cantuche & Nuno Sousa, 2017. "Are EU exports gender-blind? Some key features of women participation in exporting activities in the EU," DG TRADE Chief Economist Notes 2017-3, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission.
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    1. Jose Manuel Rueda-Cantuche & Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova & Nuno Sousa, 2019. "Female participation in EU exporting activities: jobs and wages," DG TRADE Chief Economist Notes 2019-3, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission.
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    3. Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova & Pablo Piñero & Jose Manuel Rueda-Cantuche, 2022. "Gender patterns of EU exports: jobs and wage differentials," DG TRADE Chief Economist Notes 2022-1, Directorate General for Trade, European Commission.

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    International trade; gender; Multi-Regional Input-Output tables;
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