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

abstract

• This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. 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 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.

authors

• Robertson, Raymond

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

altmetric score

• 4.7

author list (cited authors)

• Robertson, R., Lopez-Acevedo, G., & Savchenko, Y.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Robertson, Raymond||Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys||Savchenko, Yevgeniya

publication date

• February 2020

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Development Studies  Journal

keywords

• 44 Human Society
• 4404 Development Studies
• 5 Gender Equality

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/00220388.2019.1573986

start page

• 295

end page

• 313

volume

• 56

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1573986

user-defined tag

• 5 Gender Equality