This paper identifies and estimates the reduction in poverty attributable to the improved opportunities that international trade integration offered to women in Honduras. The expansion of the export-oriented maquila sector has brought gender equality both in terms of employment and labour earnings. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not...
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2013/1/01
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مقال بمجلة علمية
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79021
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2018/6/12
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Exports, gender wage gaps and poverty in Honduras
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gender wage gap