The Feminist Economics of Trade (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Staveren, Irene Van; Cagatay, Nilufer; Grown, Caren; Elson, Diane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135986315
• Artikelnr.: 38265234

Autorenporträt

Irene van Staveren is Associate Professor of Feminist Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands. She is also Professor of Economics and Christian Ethics at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Diane Elson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and Affiliated Professor in Feminist Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands. Caren A. Grown is a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, USA. Nilüfer Çatagay is Associate Professor of Economics and a faculty member of the Middle East Studies and Women's Studies Programs at the University of Utah, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Why a Feminist Economis of Trade? Part 1: Trade and
Gender: Framing the Issues 2. Gender and the Social Construction of Markets
3. Mainstream, Heterodox and Feminist Trade Theory Part 2: Impacts of
Gender Inequality on Trade 4. Gender, Trade and Development: Labour Market
Discrimination and North-South Terms of Trade 5. The Formal Structure of a
Gender-segregated Low-income Econmy 6. Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing
Gender Wage Inequality in an Export-oriented, Semi-industrialized Economy
Part 3: Impacts of Trade on Gender Inequality 7. Modelling the Effects of
Trade on Womem at Work and at Home: Comparative Perspectives 8. Mature
Export-led Growth and Gender Wage Inequality in Taiwan 9. Export-led
Industrialization and Gender Differences in Job Creation and Destruction:
Micro Evidence from the Turkish Manufacturing Sector 10. Gender Segregation
and Gender Bias in Manufacturing Trade Expansion: Revisiting the 'Wood
Asymmetry' 11. Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs?: Competition and
Gender Wage and Employment Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing Part 4:
Feminist Approaches to Trade Policy 12. Gender, Codes, and Labor Standards
in Global Production Systems 13. Gender Indicators for Monitoring Trade
Agreements 14. Gender Issues in the Multilateral Trading System 15. Gender
Equity and Globalization: Macroeconomic Policy for Developing Countries