Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap
利用国际劳工组织数据库，跨国分析全球化对职业内性别工资差距的影响，发现贸易和外国直接投资在较富裕国家缩小了这一差距，但在较贫穷国家效果不明显。
There are several theoretical reasons why globalization will have a narrowing as well as a widening effect on the gender wage gap, but little is known about the actual impact, except for some country studies. This study contributes to the literature in three respects. First, it is a large cross-country study of the impact of globalization on the gender wage gap. Second, it employs the rarely used ILO October Inquiry database, which is the most far-ranging survey of wages around the world. Third, it focuses on the within-occupation gender wage gap, an alternative to the commonly used raw and residual wage gaps as a measure of the gender wage gap. This study finds that the occupational gender wage gap tends to decrease with increasing economic development, at least in richer countries, and to decrease with trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in richer countries, but finds little evidence that trade and FDI also reduce the occupational gender wage gap in poorer countries. © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/the world bank. All rights reserved.