TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Komura, Mizuki
AU  - Ogawa, Hikaru
        TI  - Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
        PY  - 2018/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11885
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11885
        AB  - 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-importing and capital-exporting countries, via changes in the bargaining positions of men and women. Moreover, by considering the properties of the industrial structures of capital-importing and capital-exporting countries, our result shows that globalization induces empirically observed declines in fertility rates throughout the world.
        KW  - globalization
KW  - capital market integration
KW  - gender inequality
KW  - domestic production
        ER  -