This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women … Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are …

This study explores the effects of globalization on gender inequality. Specifically, we depict that, in terms of … capital market integration, globalization alters the gender gap in wage rates through changes in labor demand for capital …-intensive sectors. Consequently, globalization leads to opposite effects on the couple's labor supply and fertility decisions in capital …

increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher …

women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri … premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women …

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

The prevalence of labor unions have declined post-WWII, and this paper examines whether globalization is a contributing … distributional effects of globalization and for the future of organized labor. …

and globalization entail serious threats to workers' unionization. The increasing influence of China and neoliberal policy …

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their … empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the … relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an …