2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Gender Issues in the Indonesian Labor Market
| Project/Area Number |
16K17113
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
WIE DAINN 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 准教授 (50600649)
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| Research Collaborator |
OISHI yoko
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | trade liberalization / gender inequality / skill-biased Technology / competition / discrimination / Indonesia |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The project is motivated by lack of consensus in the literature regarding the distributional impact of trade liberalization across female and male workers. The empirical investigation of trade liberalization is intrinsically difficult as it affects workers through various channels. The project approach empirical difficulties by employing both reduction in output and input tariffs in Indonesia to examine the two different channels of trade liberalization on female employment: competition and technology.
We found out that increased domestic competition caused by reduction in output tariffs is associated with increase in female employment in the 2000s, while reduction in input tariffs is related to significant decreases in female employment of firms utilizing imported material. Empirical evidence produced by the project implies that competition drives out discrimination against women, while imported technology favors male workers who are on average better educated than female workers.
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| Free Research Field |
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Labor Market
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
We provide the literature empirical evidence regarding the distributional impact of trade liberalization across female and male workers. Empirical evidence found in the project suggests the importance of competition and educational attainment of female workers to encourage their employment.
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