TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ederington, Josh
AU  - Minier, Jenny
AU  - Troske, Kenneth
        TI  - Where the Girls Are: Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
        PY  - 2009/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4131
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4131
        AB  - Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984–91 to investigate this claim on plant-level data in three ways. First, we examine whether women are concentrated in exporting plants. Second, we examine whether the increase in foreign competition due to unilateral trade liberalization disproportionately drove discriminating plants out of the market. Finally, we investigate whether trade liberalization affected hiring decisions (and thus gender segregation) by Colombian firms.
        KW  - competition
KW  - trade
KW  - discrimination
        ER  -