Modeling the effects of trade on women, at work and at home.

By Marzia Fontana, A. Wood. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook (2002, background): “situation and their consequences, while Fontana and Wood (2000) estimate the size of”
• The effect of trade openness on women's welfare and work life. (2009, background): “Consequently, there is likely to be a double burden with longer working hours (Elson, 1999) and less time available for caring activities and leisure (Fontana & Wood, 2000).”
• Gender equity and globalization: Macroeconomic policy for developing countries (2006, background): “Also, these industries tend to be male-dominated, such that any expansion of output is likely to benefit male workers in employment and wages (Fontana, 2002).”
• Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring (2003, background): “The globalization of trade, under trade regimes such as GATT and the controversial WTO, can have divergent effects on women (Fontana and Wood, 2000; Durano, 2002; Oxfam, 2002).”
• The Unpaid Care Work–Paid Work Connection (2008, methodology): “In such instances, employment guarantee policies (namely the idea of government as employer of last re ort) represent a powerful policy intervention and India, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Zambia, and Bolivia are some of the countries that have enacted such policies.”
• Openness and inequality in developing countries: a review of theory and recent evidence (2005, background): “First, increases in the relative earnings and employment opportunities of women may be offset by a decline in their leisure time, in absolute terms and relative to men (Fontana & Wood, 2000).”
• Globalisation, Women's Economic Rights and Forced Labour (2007, background): “Fontana and Wood (2000) come to the conclusion that an increase in foreign investment and an increase in manufactured exports is likely to narrow the gender wage gap according to their computable general equilibrium model of Bangladesh.”