Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras

This paper identifies and estimates the reduction in poverty attributable to the improved opportunities that international trade integration offered to women in Honduras. The expansion of the export-oriented maquila sector has brought gender equality both in terms of employment and labour earnings....

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Main Authors:	de Hoyos, Rafael E., Bussolo, Maurizio, Núñez, Oscar
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:	trade liberalization maquila poverty gender wage gap
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13382

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spelling	okr-10986-133822021-04-23T14:03:08Z Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras de Hoyos, Rafael E. Bussolo, Maurizio Núñez, Oscar trade liberalization maquila poverty gender wage gap This paper identifies and estimates the reduction in poverty attributable to the improved opportunities that international trade integration offered to women in Honduras. The expansion of the export-oriented maquila sector has brought gender equality both in terms of employment and labour earnings. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage points is attributable to the wage premium paid to maquila workers, 0.1 percentage points to the wage premium received by women in the maquila sector, and 1 percentage point to employment creation. 2013-05-13T14:22:54Z 2013-05-13T14:22:54Z 2012-11-06 Journal Article Oxford Development Studies 1360-0818 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13382 en_US Oxford Development Studies;40(4) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Honduras
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description	This paper identifies and estimates the reduction in poverty attributable to the improved opportunities that international trade integration offered to women in Honduras. The expansion of the export-oriented maquila sector has brought gender equality both in terms of employment and labour earnings. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage points is attributable to the wage premium paid to maquila workers, 0.1 percentage points to the wage premium received by women in the maquila sector, and 1 percentage point to employment creation.
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author	de Hoyos, Rafael E. Bussolo, Maurizio Núñez, Oscar
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title	Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras
title_short	Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras
title_full	Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras
title_fullStr	Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras
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Exports, Gender Wage Gaps and Poverty in Honduras

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