The impact of the trade liberalization on the women work: Comparative analyzes between the South Africa and the Ethiopia with an impact of the general equilibrium calculable

The effects of trade liberalization on female labor depend on a country?s socio-economic and employment sector characteristics. A Gender-aware computable general equilibrium model is applied to Ethiopia and South Africa from a comparative perspective. Tariff reduction results in opposite outcomes re...

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Veröffentlicht in:Panoeconomicus 2008, Vol.55 (1), p.69-88
Hauptverfasser: Lulit, Mitik, Berthomieu, Claude
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The effects of trade liberalization on female labor depend on a country?s socio-economic and employment sector characteristics. A Gender-aware computable general equilibrium model is applied to Ethiopia and South Africa from a comparative perspective. Tariff reduction results in opposite outcomes regarding gender-based wage and labor market participation inequalities in the two countries due to their structural differences in men?s and women?s employment. nema
ISSN:1452-595X
2217-2386
DOI:10.2298/PAN0801069L