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Trade Liberalization and Gender: Income and Multidimensional Deprivation Gaps in Brazil

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  • Louisiana Cavalcanti Teixeira

    (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, LEDA-DIAL - Développement, Institutions et Modialisation - LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

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The aim of this study is to treat the Brazilian trade opening in the 1990s and its impacts on gender inequalities before and after the Stabilization Plan, Plano Real *. Using the difference in differences method and a panel from 1987-1997, the obtained evidence suggests that before the Real Plan, trade liberalization reduced the existent gender income and deprivation gap. Nonetheless, these apparent improvements seemed to be related to men's greater losses within formal activities and to a female labor's expansion through informality. After the Stabilization Plan, trade would increase gender disparities by bringing greater income gains and deeper deprivation decrease to men. The opening policies in the 1990s perpetuated the international and the gendered division of labor and was unable of permitting structural changes capable of creating comparative advantages. Thus, it guaranteed the maintenance of gender distortions, where changes continued to occur unevenly.

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  • Louisiana Cavalcanti Teixeira, 2020. "Trade Liberalization and Gender: Income and Multidimensional Deprivation Gaps in Brazil," Working Papers hal-02997094, HAL.
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    Keywords

    Trade Liberalization; Labor; Gender; Income; Multidimensional Poverty; JEL classification: F12; F13; F14 Trade Liberalization;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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