The Relationship between Trade Freedom and Gender Discrimination in Industrial Employment - Based on the Research of Multinational Panel Data

2018 5th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

Feng, Zhengqiang^1 ; Zhou, Hui^1

School of Business, Central South University, Changsha

410083, China^1

关键词: Empirical test;    Endogeneity;    Gender discrimination;    Industrial employment;    Instrumental variables;    Lag phase;    Multinational panels;    Weighted averages;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/394/5/052072/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/394/5/052072

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper is based on the multinational panel data of 226 countries and regions from 1985 to 2016, using the ratio of industrial female employees to industrial male employees to measure gender discrimination in industrial employment, measuring the degree of trade freedom forwardly and reversely by foreign trade dependence and MFN weighted average tariff rate respectively, analyzing the impact of trade freedom on the ratio of industrial employment of women to men by empirical test. The lag phase of foreign trade dependence and weighted MFN weighted average tariff rate are used as the instrumental variables of the two models to deal with the endogeneity problem. The empirical result shows that increasing the degree of trade freedom will reduce the ratio of industrial female employees to industrial male employees, so trade freedom aggravates the gender discrimination in industrial employment.