This paper analyzes the differential employment impacts on women and men brought about by the East Asian crisis and the preceeding periods of boom-bust cycles and increased openness. It is found that the growth period in the second half of the 1980s favored male employment more than female...

We investigate the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. We do so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of interconnection: (i) the share of labor demand that is export induced (i.e., all labor demand created by foreign...