Globalized Markets, Globalized Information, and Female Employment: Accounting for Regional Differences in 30 OECD Countries

Justina A. V. Fischer

Chapter Chapter 13 in Geographical Labor Market Imbalances, 2015, pp 283-303 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a neglected aspect in many cross-country comparisons. This chapter highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of informational and economic globalization on female employment in 30 OECD countries, using a micro pseudo panel of 110,000 persons derived from five waves of repeated cross sections from the World Values Survey, 1981–2008. I conjecture that informational globalization affects societal values and perceived economic opportunities, while economic globalization impacts actual economic opportunities. A traditional cross-country analysis suggests that the informational dimension of globalization but not the economic one increases the probability of employment for women—contradicting the Becker (1957) hypothesis of international competition mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for subnational regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the impact of worldwide information exchange works rather at the regional level, while economic globalization (trade) increases female employment in general.

Keywords: Globalization; Economic integration; Labor market; Employment; Regions; Social norms; Communication; Discrimination; Gender; World values survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55203-8_13

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