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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2019.1653785
Enhance or depress? The effect of trade on active females in the labour market
Zheng-Zheng Li
; Department of Finance, Ocean University of China, Shandong, China
Chi-Wei Su
; School of Economics, Qingdao University, Shandong, China
Ran Tao
; Qingdao Municipal Centre for Disease Control & Prevention, Shandong, China
Lin-Na Hao
; School of Business, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China
Sažetak
The objective of this study is to provide evidence for the existence of threshold effects in trade openness, which affects the female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in Asian countries. The authors employ the proportion of export, import and total trade volume to gross domestic product to denote export and import dependency and trade openness, respectively. The panel threshold regression results indicate that there exists an optimal value in the correlation between trade openness and FLFPR below which an increase in trade openness will enhance the FLFPR; an adverse relationship exists when trade openness exceeds the threshold value. This relationship is attributed to the trade-off between the cost reduction effect and the technology channel. Furthermore, the authors further categorise trade openness into export and import dependency. The findings reveal that export dependency also has a single threshold effect on FLFPR, while import dependency exerts a negative effect on FLFPR regardless of threshold effect. Therefore, the government could promote female participation in the labour force by regulating the export policy.
Ključne riječi
Trade openness; female labour force participation rate; exports dependency; imports dependency; panel threshold model
Hrčak ID:
229573
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.1.2019.
Posjeta: 836 *