Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia

Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Yevgeniya Savchenko
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

Journal of Development Studies, 2020, vol. 56, issue 2, 295-313

Abstract: Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a closing of the male-female wage gap during the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) period, but smaller premiums and a widening wage gap after the end of the MFA. Our results suggest that apparel exports continued to benefit women in developing countries post-MFA but women – both in and out of the apparel industry – are susceptible to changes in global apparel prices.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1573986

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